Father sues Google, claiming Gemini chatbot drove son into fatal delusion

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by He/They/It/Dragon edited depth: 2

I don’t think this person was a “fuckwit”. AI is designed to keep engaging with you and will affirm any belief you have, and anything that is a little weird, but innocent otherwise will simply get amplified further and further into straight up mega delusions until the person has a psychotic episode, and this stuff happens more to NORMIES with no historic of mental illnesses than neurodivergent people.

Chat GPT was super affirming about a job I recently applied to… I did not get the job. That was my first experience with it affirming something that was personally important. And so I can absolutely see how this would affect someone in other ways.


It’s cool, we can agree to disagree, because I 100% think that he was a textbook fuckwit.

Strange, that’s what I thought after reading your comments.


by He/They/It/Dragon depth: 4

“Let’s blame the person who had a psychotic episode instead of the corporations who created an AI that feeds into delusions” is what you’re saying here, and uh, that makes you even more of a fuckwit than this guy. Do you blame people for getting scammed once because they had a knowledge gap about whatever scam they got hit with?




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