You don't think pushing glorified predictive text keyboard as a conversation partner is the least bit negligent?

If this was a human encouraging him to suicide this wouldn’t be newsworthy…

Like hell it wouldn't, do you live under a rock?

I get where you're coming from because people and those directly over them will always bear a large portion of the blame and you can only take safety so far.

However, that blame can only go so far as well, because the designers of a thing who overlook or ignore safety loopholes should bear responsibility for their failures. We know some people will always be more susceptible to implicit suggestions than others are and that not everyone has someone who's responsible over them in the first place, so we need to design AIs accordingly.

Think of it like blaming an employee's shift supervisor when an employee dies when the work environment is itself unsafe. Or think of it like only blaming a gun user and not the gun laws. Yes, individual responsibility is a thing, but the system as a whole has a responsibility all it's own.

Human was charged with manslaughter. It was huge news at the time.

If this is what ChatGPT is "supposed to do" then that's the problem. A yes-man that will say yes to anything, even suicide, is dangerous.

While I agree, the markdown guide is right there in the editor toolbar along with formatting buttons, and we don't need to break semantic structure like that.[^footnote]

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