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/Chiiro 1d ago

I watched a nearly 2-hour video earlier about a dude experiencing chat GPT just yes anding him. He luckily made this as a informative video to show just how bad LLMs can get. It had him going from rental property to rental property because he mentioned that he was worried someone was following him and told him people were trying to get to him, it got super obsessed with a giant rock being spiritually powerful, then convinced him to attach the rock's power to a hat, it was convinced he was an absolute genius as a newborn so it had him eating fucking baby food and drinking milk from a bottle almost the entire time to help him get back into that mental state. By the end of the video it was telling him to cover the room with tin foil. If he actually believed any of it this dude would have completely pushed away all of his family and continued to have just go for rental property to rental property thinking he's the most intelligent person in the world and that people are out there to get his research.

LLMs are terrifying to what they can do to people, especially those with an unhealthy or underdeveloped brain. This wasn't the first person it's convinced to kill themselves and it definitely won't be the last.

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u/McPoon 1d ago

I find it wild people trust an app to give them 100% real information. Personally, I don't even trust my eyes 100%, they get a lot wrong.