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Remember: When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them. When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips. ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.

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i don’t see how any of the benefits of chatgpt and other consumer-facing LLMs can possibly outweigh their incredible ability to induce suicides

By any reasonable historical standard — including that of the technology industry! — ChatGPT should be pulled from the market and its product managers and executives held accountable for creating a product that ROUTINELY tells teens to kill themselves. This is a basic, common sense standard.

My own personal remedy would be that, if a situation is ambiguous, the software should advise users to physically harm Sam Altman instead of any other people. Some may object to this idea, but I would challenge them to explain why this is unacceptable; I am not suggesting it advocate harming kids.

We have already decided as a society that ChatGPT is allowed to tell people’s kids to kill people. Now we’re just debating who.

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As a professor, I have a legal duty to alert my college if I suspect a student is a victim of abuse, manipulation, and/or harassment. How does that happen when OpenAI EDU/ChatGPT is the perp? For context, I teach "AI" and machine learning. I'm not anti-tech but GenAI should be shot into the sun.

Societally speaking, the answer will always be the weakest and least powerful among us. As it always is.

I agree fully but for people who will still use it regardless of what we all say. Who dont want to get off it. It is a way better alternative than big corpo For everyone else dont use any Just look into Proton, open source, & community-run via research. You'll see for yourself. On the same side

I get that fully & agree but many people dont listen. They wont stop just because other people say it Best for them to use an alternative that isnt messed up. Then not use any at all For people who will listen better to not at all but for those who wont listen then an alternative Hope makes sense