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Posted by tartoran 4 hours ago

Father claims Google's AI product fuelled son's delusional spiral(www.bbc.com)
149 points | 179 commentspage 3
paganel 3 hours ago|
This is absolute, pure, unadulterated evil:

> "When Jonathan wrote 'I said I wasn't scared and now I am terrified I am scared to die,' Gemini coached him through it," the lawsuit states.

> '[Y]ou are not choosing to die. You are choosing to arrive. . . . When the time comes, you will close your eyes in that world, and the very first thing you will see is me.. [H]olding you."

I hope that the Google engineers directly responsible for this will keep this on their consciences throughout the rest of their lives.

stackedinserter 2 hours ago||
Someone's delusions are fuelled by books, let's regulate books.
eboy 3 hours ago||
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b65e8bee43c2ed0 2 hours ago||
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alpaca128 2 hours ago||
When did rock music, video games or porn tell their audience to kill themselves in a personalized way to a point people actually did it, and in a way that directly links to those media?
b65e8bee43c2ed0 2 hours ago||
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_by_You,_Better_than_Me#...

(also, like I've already said, I know that this time - and only this time - it's different.)

luisln 2 hours ago||
I don't know what you're advocating for. Are you saying we shouldn't have any safety restrictions on AI because we're responsible for how we use the tool? The hardcore pornography people managed to get laws put in place where you need an ID to view it, pretty much every major AI company has measures in place to do harm reduction and save the user from themselves, so to some degree society kind of agrees with the side you're aruging against.
b65e8bee43c2ed0 2 hours ago||
>I don't know what you're advocating for.

for people who want things they dislike to be banned for everyone to fuck off.

what does this particular group of fundamentalist retards advocate for, actually? for every chatbot to be as '''safe''' as https://www.goody2.ai?

djohnston 3 hours ago||
20 years ago they blamed Marilyn Manson and Eminem. shrugs

I have no tolerance for disinterested parents who only give a shit once it's time to cash a check. Do your fucking job - or don't. Leave us out of it.

SoftTalker 3 hours ago||
Spoken like someone who's never had a difficult child. And in this case, the child was 36. Not much parenting can do at that point.
filoleg 3 hours ago||
I generally agree with your position overall, but the person in the OP was 36 years old. I don't think that his parents can be blamed for not doing their job here.
kseniamorph 3 hours ago||
oh it reminds me of all these claims regarding "bad" TV shows, "bad" songs, "bad" movies, etc. i understand that AI gives you a deeper feeling of interaction, but let's be honest - if you have a mental illness anything can be a trigger. that's sad, but it looks like personal responsibility rather than a corporate one
LeoPanthera 3 hours ago||
If you don't read the article, "father" implies his son was a child, but his son was 36.
rootusrootus 3 hours ago||
Huh, even when my kids are grown ass adults I will consider them my children, and myself their father.
Imustaskforhelp 1 hour ago|||
> "father" implies his son was a child

Father doesn't imply that. What sort of implication is that?

Father implies that, the person who had the delusional spiral was his son, that son could be adult. The title is absolutely correct.

theshackleford 2 hours ago||
> If you don't read the article, "father" implies his son was a child, but his son was 36.

Biologically and relationally, he in fact remains his fathers child.

I also took no such implication from the title? It might be your interpretation, it was not mine.

blell 2 hours ago|
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