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[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 63 points 2 days ago (4 children)

"Christian Faith Madison" is all I need to know about her and her family

[–] Trampampoline@sh.itjust.works 44 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Christian Faith Madison kills herself to fulfill a divine prophecy

flips through the script

"who wrote this shit?"

Is the coroner's name Morty Deadstuffer?

[–] Epp@lemmus.org 24 points 2 days ago

Right? I think this same outcome would have been achieved if she had received a fortune cookie that simply said "You will meet your greatest hero soon"

[–] Grimy@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

We could probably save more people by restricting religion than LLMs. Whatever real life support system she had, it was probably encouraging her delusions just as much as the bot was.

[–] LuckyDevil@piefed.social 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Judging people based on the name their parents gave them at birth seems like a poorly thought out idea.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

and naming them after a description of religious individual and a belief.

[–] LuckyDevil@piefed.social -1 points 1 day ago

Not sure if you're straw manning me, or what. Because your reply doesn't have anything to do with what I said. And if you think my original comment has anything to do with religion, or it's defense, you'd be very wrong.

[–] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works -5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You can change it any time once you're an adult.

And if you keep Byntleigh Destini Starr, or Jysis Saves Smith ... You've probably earned it 🤷

[–] LuckyDevil@piefed.social 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Your argument boils down to victim blaming. 🤷

[–] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

There's nobody else to blame. This is straight up a deficiency problem and it's obviously baked in from the get.

If you went to Reddit and assholes told you that you needed to kill yourself to be resurrected and make everyone's dicks four inches longer and you did, there wouldnt be backlash against Reddit to make people be nicer. Is there a problem where people cannot always get the support they deserve for psychological issues? Sure. At the same time, extreme psychosis and insufficient mental faculties are not things that society is obliged to protect you from: if you play too much frogger then walk into traffic and die, it's your fault, there's nobody else TO blame. Frogger isn't real life and chatGPT isn't a life coach.

[–] LuckyDevil@piefed.social 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Uhhh, what!?

And if you keep Byntleigh Destini Starr, or Jysis Saves Smith … You’ve probably earned it

The victims are the people being given these names. You are the blamer, because you think they've "earned it" because they haven't changed it. My original comment had absolutely nothing to do with the article...

[–] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You're right, I was defending a different position than you were replying to.

At the same time, if I ended up with a canonically religious crazy or white trash name... I would change it. The thought of changing my name had crossed my mind, but it's pretty whitebread.

[–] Darkenfolk@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Your parents called you Pretty Whitebread? Damn, bit on the nose isn't it? :P

[–] Epp@lemmus.org 1 points 1 day ago

My parents were extremely religious, and named me after the fictitious leader of a made up civilization of atheists. It's such a weird paradox to me, because I did indeed grow up to not share their religion, but that's the exact opposite of what they actually wanted.