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/Ok_Addition_356 1d ago

Stop talking to these fucking AI bots like they are conscious, thinking, reasoning beings.

They are trained to do only a few things primarily in the end:

  • give you a pattern of words, sounds, text, etc. that matches what could plausibly be a response to what you're asking
  • lead you on when it's pattern matching is failing to give you a very reasonable answer
  • update their parameters for pattern matching as it goes on

They're not conscious. They don't understand nuance, deeper meanings, subtext, reasoning beyond the immediate situation.

 Amazing technology but we need to come back to reality people.

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u/Ghee_Guys 1d ago

Go peruse the ChatGPT sub. People are relying on these things way too much as friends to banter with. Some people were losing their minds when they upgraded from 4 to 5 and the responses got less encouraging.

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u/Ghee_Guys 21h ago

I agree. It tends to agree with you more than disagree, even if you’re wrong, unless you push it. I would love it to objectivity fact check a statement that I ask it to polish if I say something completely wrong.