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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*.

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.

This is the same logic that wanted to pull Judas Priest and Marilyn Manson from airwaves.

You went straight to insults instead of addressing my point. I am talking about the pattern of blaming a medium for outcomes. If you think this case is different, say so.

This isn’t Sam Altman’s art project, he’s not in his basement painting ChatGPT on an easel! It’s not a medium! It’s a product, of a corporation, designed by thousands of well-paid professionals with a specific intent, for profit. This is *by design*, and it’s coercive, not consensually being chosen.

I mean… songs are products delivered by corporations and thousands of people too. But anyway. Re Chat GPT, seems like you’re suggesting that designers intentionally programmed a self-harm mechanism - which is insane. Are they culpable? Hell yes. They failed to install appropriate safeguards.