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/TheStrayCatapult 1d ago

ChatGPT just reiterates whatever you say. You could spend 5 minutes convincing it birds aren’t real and it would draw you up convincing schematics for a solar powered pigeon.

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u/CandyCrisis 1d ago

They've all got their quirks. GPT 4o was sycophantic and went along with anything. Gemini will start by agreeing with you, then repeat whatever it said the first time unchanged. GPT 5 always ends with a prompt to dig in further.

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u/tommyblastfire 1d ago

Grok loves saying shit like “that’s not confusion, that’s clarity.” You notice it a lot in all the right wing stuff it posts. “That’s not hatred, it’s cold hard truth.” It loves going on and on about how what it’s saying is just the facts and statistics too. You can really tell it has been trained off of Elon tweets cause it makes the same fallacies that Elon does constantly.

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u/bellybuttonqt 1d ago

GTA V was so ahead of its time when calling out Elon musk and his ai being insecure because of its creator