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[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 109 points 3 weeks ago (37 children)

"Despite acknowledging Adam’s suicide attempt and his statement that he would 'do it one of these days,' ChatGPT neither terminated the session nor initiated any emergency protocol," the lawsuit said

That's one way to get a suit tossed out I suppose. ChatGPT isn't a human, isn't a mandated reporter, ISN'T a licensed therapist, or licensed anything. LLMs cannot reason, are not capable of emotions, are not thinking machines.

LLMs take text apply a mathematic function to it, and the result is more text that is probably what a human may respond with.

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

So, we should hold companies to account for shipping/building products that don't have safety features?

[–] gens@programming.dev 7 points 2 weeks ago

Ah yes. Safety knives. Safety buildings. Safety sleeping pills. Safety rope.

LLMs are stupid. A toy. A tool at best, but really a rubber ducky. And it definitely told him "don't".

[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 6 points 2 weeks ago

We should, criminaly.

I like that a lawsuit is happening. I don't like that the lawsuit (initially to me) sounded like they expected the software itself to do something about it.

It turns out it also did do something about it but OpenAI failed to take the necessary action. So maybe I am wrong about it getting thrown out.

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