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This honestly sounds like a good case for the courts establishing a product liability doctrine for LLMs. (For the non-lawyers: if you make an unsafe thing, whether it's a car or a chainsaw, the maker is on the hook for damages caused by defective design and manufacturing.)

Sam Cole@samleecole.bsky.social

There are so many stories lately about people who died by suicide after falling into emotionally manipulative patterns with chatbots. We rarely get to hear how the people who loved them are coping after an unimaginable, senseless loss. This is one of their stories: www.404media.co/austin-gordo...

404media.co'Tell Everyone:' A Man Died by Suicide After Talking to ChatGPT. His Former Partner Wants to Warn the World About AIAfter allegedly becoming emotionally reliant on ChatGPT, Austin died at 40 years old, leaving behind family and friends who loved him. Megan wants everyone to know what happened.

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Felonious Monk

@alexqgb.bsky.social

9 Sept

Interestingly, this would open the door to claims that others were driven to suicide by people around them. AFAIK, people don’t get charged with murder when bullying others to death if the victim ultimately dies by their own hand.

Jake Berman

@lostsubways.com

9 Sept

Right now, industry standard software contracts are the exact opposite: there's a specific limit of liability established in the contract that the maker can be held liable for, and not a cent more. This norm for software doesn't work when the software encourages people to kill themselves.