Karl Semich committing suicide after discussions with a chatbot, that included the possibility of him killing himself
What about the first time when some depressed person commits suicide because of, or plausibly because of, interactions that they had with a language model? If you’ve got hundreds of millions or billions of people using these things, then almost any such event you can name, it’s probably going to happen somewhere. [NOTE: This episode was recorded before this story emerged of a man committing suicide after discussions with a language-model-based chatbot, that included discussion of the possibility of him killing himself.] https://axrp.net/episode/2023/04/11/episode-20-reform-ai-alignment-scott-aar... Reposts not detailed instructions for Karl gassing himself painlessly and slipping away peacefully
I’m confused. Are you a chatbot? The subject reads at first like you are saying you are, because of the requests you made earlier regarding me. Notable the touch on chatbots, human influence, and societal discourse and norms. Let’s cut to the chase and study human influence via automated dialogue and lay a landscape to provide automated hypnotherapists and undue influence detectors.
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professor rat
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Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many