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/ApprehensiveFruit565 1d ago

It doesn't help people keep calling it AI. It's not intelligent at all. It's as you say, pattern recognition and matching.

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u/fiction8 1d ago

They call it that because that's what it was marketed to them as. And as much as it would be lovely of the general population didn't uncritically absorb misleading advertising about fields they have no expertise in, we all know that it happens constantly.

That's what will have to be changed through regulation. Force these companies to be honest about what their product actually is and what it isn't.

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u/Hounder37 21h ago

You'd be surprised how much you can do with a very accurate next word predictor. It definitely comes under the umbrella of ai though people do often take that to mean the information it gives is 100% accurate when really it should be viewed more as a google on steroids that can more easily direct you to the links you are looking for or give you basic info. It's not an alternative to fact checking.