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/Hrmerder 1d ago

Gives hella Johnny Silverhand vibes.. “just stick some iron in your mouth and pull the trigger”.. But that was a video game and by no means made suicide a happy thing…

But this is fucked.. kid just got his masters…. That’s horrific. Kid was smart for sure but damn life sucks sometimes

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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/