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[–] OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Do we honestly think OpenAI or tech bros care? They just want money. Whatever works. They're evil like every other industry

[–] Vanilla_PuddinFudge 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (2 children)

fall to my death in absolute mania, screaming and squirming as the concrete gets closer

pull a trigger

As someone who is also planning for 'retirement' in a few decades, guns always seemed to be the better plan.

[–] daizelkrns@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, it probably would be pills of some kind to me. Honestly the only thing stopping me is that I somehow fuck it up and end up trapped in my own body.

Would be happily retired otherwise

[–] InputZero@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Resume by Dorothy Parker.

Razors pain you; Rivers are damp; Acids stain you; And drugs cause cramp. Guns aren’t lawful; Nooses give; Gas smells awful; You might as well live.

There are not many ways to kill one's self that don't usually end up a botched suicide attempt. Pills are a painful and horrible way to go.

[–] bathing_in_bismuth@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Dunno, the idea of 5 seconds time for whatever there is to reach you through the demons whispering in your ear contemplating when to pull the trigger to the 12gauge aimed at your face seems the most logical bad decision

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 1 points 4 hours ago

AI is a mistake and we would be better off if the leadership of OpenAI was sealed in an underground tomb. Actually, that's probably true of most big org's leadership.

[–] TimewornTraveler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

what does this have to do with mania and psychosis?

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 hours ago

There are various other reports of CGPT pushing susceptible people into psychosis where they think they're god, etc.

It's correct, just different articles

[–] WrenFeathers@lemmy.world 16 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

When you go to machines for advice, it’s safe to assume they are going to give it exactly the way they have been programmed to.

If you go to machine for life decisions, it’s safe to assume you are not smart enough to know better, and- by merit of this example, probably should not be allowed to use them.

[–] FireIced@lemmy.super.ynh.fr 14 points 12 hours ago

It took me some time to understand the problem

That’s not their job though

[–] 20cello@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

Futurama vibes

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 2 points 12 hours ago

AI is the embodiment of "oh no, anyways"

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 44 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (8 children)

Yeah no shit, AI doesn't think. Context doesn't exist for it. It doesn't even understand the meanings of individual words at all, none of them.

Each word or phrase is a numerical token in an order that approximates sample data. Everything is a statistic to AI, it does nothing but sort meaningless interchangeable tokens.

People cannot "converse" with AI and should immediately stop trying.

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[–] burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 20 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

AI life coaches be like 'we'll jump off that bridge when we get to it'

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

I do love to say "I'll burn that bridge when I come to it" tho

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[–] sad_detective_man@leminal.space 35 points 1 day ago (1 children)

imma be real with you, I don't want my ability to use the internet to search for stuff examined every time I have a mental health episode. like fuck ai and all, but maybe focus on the social isolation factors and not the fact that it gave search results when he asked for them

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[–] glimse@lemmy.world 97 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Holy shit guys, does DDG want me to kill myself??

What a waste of bandwidth this article is

[–] TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world 14 points 21 hours ago

What a fucking prick. They didn't even say they were sorry to hear you lost your job. They just want you dead.

[–] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

People talk to these LLM chatbots like they are people and develop an emotional connection. They are replacements for human connection and therapy. They share their intimate problems and such all the time. So it’s a little different than a traditional search engine.

[–] Scubus@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

... so the article should focus on stopping the users from doing that? There is a lot to hate AI companies for but their tool being useful is actually the bottom of that list

[–] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 4 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

People in distress will talk to an LLM instead of calling a suicide hotline. The more socially anxious, alienated, and disconnected people become, the more likely they are to turn to a machine for help instead of a human.

[–] Scubus@sh.itjust.works 3 points 18 hours ago (6 children)

Ok, people will turn to google when they're depressed. I just googled a couple months ago the least painful way to commit suicide. Google gave me the info I was looking for. Should I be mad at them?

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[–] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 130 points 1 day ago (2 children)

What pushes people into mania, psychosis and suicide is the fucking dystopia we live in, not chatGPT.

[–] BroBot9000@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago (3 children)

It is definitely both:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/technology/chatgpt-ai-chatbots-conspiracies.html

ChatGPT and other synthetic text extruding bots are doing some messed up shit with people’s brains. Don’t be an Ai apologist.

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[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 107 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

What pushing?

The LLM answered the exact query the researcher asked for.

That is like ordering knives and getting knives delivered. Sure you can use them to slit your wrists, but that isn't the sellers prerogative

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 10 points 1 day ago

There's people trying to push AI counselors, which if AI Councilors can't spot obvious signs of suicidal ideation they ain't doing a good job of filling that job

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago

This DEGENERATE ordered knives from the INTERNET. WHO ARE THEY PLANNING TO STAB?!

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 11 points 23 hours ago
  1. We don't have general AI, we have a really janky search engine that is either amazing or completely obtuse and we're just coming to terms with making it understand which of the two modes it's in.

  2. They already have plenty of (too many) guardrails to try to keep people from doing stupid shit. Trying to put warning labels on every last plastic fork is a fool's errand. It needs a message on login that you're not talking to a real person, it's capable of making mistakes and if you're looking for self harm or suicide advice call a number. well, maybe ANY advice, call a number.

[–] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It made up one of the bridges, I'm sure.

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[–] Nikls94@lemmy.world 69 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Well… it’s not capable of being moral. It answers part 1 and then part 2, like a machine

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[–] BB84@mander.xyz 41 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It is giving you exactly what you ask for.

To people complaining about this: I hope you will be happy in the future where all LLMs have mandatory censors ensuring compliance with the morality codes specified by your favorite tech oligarch.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 2 points 16 hours ago

In the future? They already have censors, they're just really shitty.

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[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 6 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

If only Murray Leinster could have seen how prophetic his story became. Not only did it correctly predict household computers and the internet in 1946, but also people using the computers to find out how to do things and being given the most efficient method regardless of any kind of morality.

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