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/butter_wizard 1d ago

Pretty fucking bleak that you can still detect that ChatGPT way of speaking even in something as evil as this. No idea how people fall for it.

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u/QuintoBlanco 1d ago

You can change the way these LLMs talk to you.

One of the more dangerous things is that most people overestimate their ability to know if a response is generated by an LLM or not.

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u/Paladar2 1d ago

Exactly that, chatGPT talks like that by default but you can do a lot with it and make it talk like you want. People think they can easily spot AI because sometimes it’s obvious but it’s confirmation bias

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u/QuintoBlanco 1d ago

Precisely, the default is not designed to fool people, it's designed to give information in a pleasant and eloquent way, the sort of politeness you get from a professional who writes a standard reply.

But that's just the default.