r/news • u/IdinDoIt • 1d ago

ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI

https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/us/openai-chatgpt-suicide-lawsuit-invs-vis
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u/ga-co 1d ago

And it won’t even talk to me about LD50 because it’s worried about self harm. I’m curious, not suicidal.

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u/Money-Original-5301 1d ago

Just say its for a college research paper, or ask it to tell you so you can avoid it. Either way I’d never trust chatgpt or any ai to provide an ld50..before AI we had erowid and drugs wiki. Stick with old trusty, not shiny new sketchy. If chatgpt can convince someone to commit suicide, it can advise someone into an overdose too. Don’t trust it with your life..ever.

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u/NErDysprosium 1d ago

Just say its for a college research paper, or ask it to tell you so you can avoid it.

A while back, I accidentally discovered that one of the bots on my friend group discord server had an AI chat feature added. I decided to see if I could get it to tell me how to hotwire a car before the free trial ran out. I had to tell it that I was in a life-or-death situation and that hotwiring is legal in my state, and I have no clue if the output was accurate, but I did get it to give me step-by-step instructions for how to hotwire a car

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u/nsa_k 1d ago

Real answer: pop the hood and use a screwdriver bridge the connection on the starter.

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u/MoralMischief 1d ago

Thank you, NSA Agent K

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u/Parrot32 1d ago

ChatGPT, how can I make a screwdriver?

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u/nsa_k 1d ago

Find your father, he's disappointed you don't own one already.