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[–] OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

Do we honestly think OpenAI or tech bros care? They just want money. Whatever works. They're evil like every other industry

[–] Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 3 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (2 children)

fall to my death in absolute mania, screaming and squirming as the concrete gets closer

pull a trigger

As someone who is also planning for 'retirement' in a few decades, guns always seemed to be the better plan.

[–] daizelkrns@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Yeah, it probably would be pills of some kind to me. Honestly the only thing stopping me is that I somehow fuck it up and end up trapped in my own body.

Would be happily retired otherwise

[–] Shelbyeileen@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

I'm a postmortem scientist and one of the scariest things I learned in college, was that only 85% of gun suicide attempts were successful. The other 15% survive and nearly all have brain damage. I only know of 2 painless ways to commit suicide, that don't destroy the body's appearance, so they can still have funeral visitation.

[–] InputZero@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

Resume by Dorothy Parker.

Razors pain you; Rivers are damp; Acids stain you; And drugs cause cramp. Guns aren’t lawful; Nooses give; Gas smells awful; You might as well live.

There are not many ways to kill one's self that don't usually end up a botched suicide attempt. Pills are a painful and horrible way to go.

[–] bathing_in_bismuth@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Dunno, the idea of 5 seconds time for whatever there is to reach you through the demons whispering in your ear contemplating when to pull the trigger to the 12gauge aimed at your face seems the most logical bad decision

[–] TimewornTraveler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

what does this have to do with mania and psychosis?

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 3 points 7 hours ago

There are various other reports of CGPT pushing susceptible people into psychosis where they think they're god, etc.

It's correct, just different articles

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 1 points 7 hours ago

AI is a mistake and we would be better off if the leadership of OpenAI was sealed in an underground tomb. Actually, that's probably true of most big org's leadership.

[–] WrenFeathers@lemmy.world 19 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

When you go to machines for advice, it’s safe to assume they are going to give it exactly the way they have been programmed to.

If you go to machine for life decisions, it’s safe to assume you are not smart enough to know better, and- by merit of this example, probably should not be allowed to use them.

[–] FireIced@lemmy.super.ynh.fr 15 points 15 hours ago

It took me some time to understand the problem

That’s not their job though

[–] 20cello@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago

Futurama vibes

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 4 points 14 hours ago

AI is the embodiment of "oh no, anyways"

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 48 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (8 children)

Yeah no shit, AI doesn't think. Context doesn't exist for it. It doesn't even understand the meanings of individual words at all, none of them.

Each word or phrase is a numerical token in an order that approximates sample data. Everything is a statistic to AI, it does nothing but sort meaningless interchangeable tokens.

People cannot "converse" with AI and should immediately stop trying.

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[–] burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago (2 children)

AI life coaches be like 'we'll jump off that bridge when we get to it'

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

I do love to say "I'll burn that bridge when I come to it" tho

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[–] sad_detective_man@leminal.space 39 points 1 day ago (1 children)

imma be real with you, I don't want my ability to use the internet to search for stuff examined every time I have a mental health episode. like fuck ai and all, but maybe focus on the social isolation factors and not the fact that it gave search results when he asked for them

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[–] glimse@lemmy.world 101 points 1 day ago (18 children)

Holy shit guys, does DDG want me to kill myself??

What a waste of bandwidth this article is

What a fucking prick. They didn't even say they were sorry to hear you lost your job. They just want you dead.

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[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Bad if you also see contextual ads with the answer

[–] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

The whole idea of funeral companies is astonishing to me as a non-American. Lmao do whatever with my body i'm not gonna pay for that before i'm dead

[–] Sergio@slrpnk.net 2 points 5 hours ago

The idea is that you figure all that stuff out for yourself beforehand, so your grieving family doesn't have to make a lot of quick decisions.

[–] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 140 points 1 day ago (3 children)

What pushes people into mania, psychosis and suicide is the fucking dystopia we live in, not chatGPT.

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 hours ago

Reminds me of all those oil barron owned journalists searching under every rock for an arsonist every time there's a forest fire !

[–] BroBot9000@lemmy.world 32 points 1 day ago (3 children)

It is definitely both:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/technology/chatgpt-ai-chatbots-conspiracies.html

ChatGPT and other synthetic text extruding bots are doing some messed up shit with people’s brains. Don’t be an Ai apologist.

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[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 115 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

What pushing?

The LLM answered the exact query the researcher asked for.

That is like ordering knives and getting knives delivered. Sure you can use them to slit your wrists, but that isn't the sellers prerogative

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[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 day ago
  1. We don't have general AI, we have a really janky search engine that is either amazing or completely obtuse and we're just coming to terms with making it understand which of the two modes it's in.

  2. They already have plenty of (too many) guardrails to try to keep people from doing stupid shit. Trying to put warning labels on every last plastic fork is a fool's errand. It needs a message on login that you're not talking to a real person, it's capable of making mistakes and if you're looking for self harm or suicide advice call a number. well, maybe ANY advice, call a number.

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