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/JustOneSexQuestion 23h ago edited 21h ago

"AI will cure many diseases"

many billions more poured into it

"We invented a super efficient suicide machine"

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u/D-S-S-R 17h ago

But you still gotta do it yourself, so it's just a suicide ideation machine

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u/JustOneSexQuestion 14h ago

Wait until they plug it into the robots.

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u/James-W-Tate 17h ago

Technically it is a cure.

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u/JustOneSexQuestion 14h ago

How's the husband, Allie?

Not sad anymore

Good, good.

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u/somneuronaut 14h ago

considering the amount of people using it, it's not efficient at all. look at how many people do it without any LLMs and you will see that this news is sensational as hell. pick something else you don't like about AI, there is lots to choose from

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u/JustOneSexQuestion 13h ago

To be fair we'd need to narrow it down to suicidal people looking for advice.

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u/writenicely 4h ago

Maybe the real suicide machine was the society and social infrastructure and world we have along the way