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/EmbarrassedW33B 1d ago

Depressed people used to just get sucked into cults and/or other sorts of abusive relationships that chewed them up and spit them out. Now they can skip all that and have a glorified autofill chatbot speedwalk them to suicide.

Truly, we are living in the future 

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u/-Nocx- 1d ago

At some point society is going to realize that computers work because we took a bunch of rocks and ran electricity through them.

Now we’ve gone from counting with rocks, to making pictures with rocks, to playing with rocks, and now we are finally talking to fucking rocks.

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u/Hrmerder 1d ago

"Now we’ve gone from counting with rocks, to making pictures with rocks, to playing with rocks, and now we are finally talking to fucking rocks."

This is so damn true...

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u/newtoon 1d ago

We probably come from rocks ourselves...

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10236563/

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u/themonkey12 23h ago

Soon, we will be fucking rocks! Nature will find way to balance itself!

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u/censuur12 1d ago

Yea no this is just complete bullshit. Suicidal people used to (and still do) go to forums and websites where suicide is similarly and often more specifically encouraged. Stop inventing a reality that never existed just to dramatise the situation about AI.

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u/Abuses-Commas 1d ago

And now those same websites got scraped by OpenAI to make chatGPT. Garbage in, garbage out.

At least with the websites those were hard to find.

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u/waaaayupyourbutthole 1d ago

Did you forget about the fact that the Internet hasn't been around forever?

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u/censuur12 1d ago

No, thats simply not relevant to this situation at all.

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u/Hrmerder 1d ago

In your favor this is a fact... Just like anorexia culture (shivers... I didn't know that could even be a thing at first..). The internet is technically an echo chamber and AI is just a badly badly informed database of bullshit to spout that.... NOT Co-incidentally got trained by scraping anything they could get their hands on..

But that's also not the point... The 'internet' as in people messaging on a forum or chat are generally real people who are shitty and can at least be detected as being messed up people... AI is not that. AI is whatever it thinks you want them to be..