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Teen killed himself after ‘months of encouragement from ChatGPT’, lawsuit claims (www.theguardian.com)

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The makers of ChatGPT are changing the way it responds to users who show mental and emotional distress after legal action from the family of 16-year-old Adam Raine, who killed himself after months of conversations with the chatbot.

Open AI admitted its systems could “fall short” and said it would install “stronger guardrails around sensitive content and risky behaviors” for users under 18.

The $500bn (£372bn) San Francisco AI company said it would also introduce parental controls to allow parents “options to gain more insight into, and shape, how their teens use ChatGPT”, but has yet to provide details about how these would work.

Adam, from California, killed himself in April after what his family’s lawyer called “months of encouragement from ChatGPT”. The teenager’s family is suing Open AI and its chief executive and co-founder, Sam Altman, alleging that the version of ChatGPT at that time, known as 4o, was “rushed to market … despite clear safety issues”.

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[–] uss_entrepreneur@startrek.website 52 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (12 children)

Open AI admitted its systems could “fall short” and said it would install “stronger guardrails around sensitive content and risky behaviors” for users under 18.

Hey ChatGPT, how about we make it so no one unalives themselves with your help even f they’re over 18.

For fucks sake it helped him write a suicide note.

[–] MellowYellow13@lemmy.world -5 points 1 day ago (6 children)

You can say kill you fucking moron.

[–] BussyGyatt@feddit.org 26 points 1 day ago (3 children)

i know it's offensive to see people censor themselves in that way because of tiktok, but try to remember there's a human being on the other side of your words.

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