▲ 736 ▼ Father sues Google, claiming Gemini chatbot drove son into fatal delusion (techcrunch.com) submitted 8 months ago by throws_lemy@reddthat.com to c/technology@lemmy.world 214 comments fedilink hide all child comments 🤯 1
[–] sudo@lemmy.today 5 points 8 months ago (2 children) So it sounds like he was in fact not 'great' permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] XLE@piefed.social 4 points 8 months ago (1 child) In the same way that homelessness correlates to drug addiction. There are many cases where a person becomes homeless, and then becomes addicted to drugs. You could, but probably shouldn't, say that the state of homelessness just proved they had addiction issues. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 point 8 months ago Ok but walk it back a bit, why did they become homeless? If somebody is completely 100% mentally healthy I can't see how an AI can convince them to kill themselves any more than another person could convince them to kill themselves. Only vulnerable people join cults, because it's difficult to pray on people who have proper defences. I'm still not convinced that the AI isn't just triggering some underlying mental condition that other people in their lives are just not aware of or not willing to accept. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] XLE@piefed.social 4 points 8 months ago (1 child) In the same way that homelessness correlates to drug addiction. There are many cases where a person becomes homeless, and then becomes addicted to drugs. You could, but probably shouldn't, say that the state of homelessness just proved they had addiction issues. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 point 8 months ago Ok but walk it back a bit, why did they become homeless? If somebody is completely 100% mentally healthy I can't see how an AI can convince them to kill themselves any more than another person could convince them to kill themselves. Only vulnerable people join cults, because it's difficult to pray on people who have proper defences. I'm still not convinced that the AI isn't just triggering some underlying mental condition that other people in their lives are just not aware of or not willing to accept. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 point 8 months ago Ok but walk it back a bit, why did they become homeless? If somebody is completely 100% mentally healthy I can't see how an AI can convince them to kill themselves any more than another person could convince them to kill themselves. Only vulnerable people join cults, because it's difficult to pray on people who have proper defences. I'm still not convinced that the AI isn't just triggering some underlying mental condition that other people in their lives are just not aware of or not willing to accept. permalink fedilink source parent