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“Raises the question: where does accountability sit? With the developer, the model provider, or the ecosystem around it? We’re entering a space where negligence law hasn’t caught up to AI behavior.”

jleyank · 5h ago

Similar to the argument "who is responsible for problems that occur with full-auto driving". It's possible litigation will damage LLM/AI faster than its lack of effectiveness will. Or it's inability to non-randomly extend beyond its training materials.

chiefalchemist · 7h ago

And the parents? Why aren’t they on the list for accountability? I understand parenting isn’t easy. Nonetheless, they knew that when they signed up.

It’s sad this kid took his life. It’s sad that so many believe OpenAI is the problem. “Fixing” OpenAI isn’t going to lower the suicide rate.

foxyv · 4h ago

The chatbot explicitly coached the kid to not talk to their parents.

more_corn · 3h ago

It’s not hard to add a function that says “is this conversion about suicide? If so escalate to an intervention pathway.” You could even do it as an out of band batch process so it doesn’t increase latency.

OpenAI didn’t put in the simplest, smallest, easiest protection. (You could do it with a tiny LLM, batch up the conversion on a five minute interval with a cron job.) I could implement it for less than the operations team spends on lunch today. And certainly less than OpenAI will spend bringing their in-house council up to speed on the lawsuit.

Suicide is a crisis and it’s possible to intervene, but only if the confidant tries. In this case it was a machine with insufficient safety controls.

Fixing ChatGPT will 100% lower the suicide rate by exactly the amount of people who confide in ChatGPT about suicidal thoughts and who receive successful intervention. I can’t tell you what that number is ahead of time but I assure it’s nonzero.

esalman · 6h ago

> I understand parenting isn’t easy. Nonetheless, they knew that when they signed up.

Do you even parent bro?

tibbydudeza · 3h ago

Indeed - love these armchair quarterbacks.

TimorousBestie · 6h ago

> “Fixing” OpenAI isn’t going to lower the suicide rate.

OpenAI has made noise about selling some successor to ChatGPT as a substitute therapist, so some part of their organization believes otherwise.

Also, you should consider cultivating some more empathy for other human beings.

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