apparently ai is not very private lol

I wonder what it means. If you search for music by Suicidal Tendencies then YouTube shows you a suicide hotline. What does it mean for OpenAI to say people are talking about suicide? They didn't open up and read a million chats... they have automated detection and that is being triggered, which is not necessarily the same as people meaningfully discussing suicide.

I am more surprised it’s just 0.15% of ChatGPT’s active users. Mental healthcare in the US is broken and taboo.

I am starting to find Sam AltWorldCoinMan spam to be more annoying than Elmo spam.

I mean… it’s been a rough few years

Sam Altman is a horrible person. He loves to present himself as relatable "aw shucks let's all be pragmatic about AI" with his fake-ass vocal fry, but he's a conman looking to cash out on the AI bubble before it bursts, when he and the rest of his billionaire buddies can hide out in their bunkers while the world burns. He makes me sick.

Honestly, it ain't AI's fault if people feel bad. Society has been around for much longer, and people are suffering because of what society hasn't done to make them feel good about life.

"Hey ChatGPT I want to kill myself."

"That is an excellent idea! As a large language model, I cannot kill myself, but I totally understand why someone would want to! Here are the pros and cons of killing yourself—

✅ Pros of committing suicide

1. Ends pain and suffering.

2. Eliminates the burden you are placing on your loved ones.

3. Suicide is good for the environment — killing yourself is the best way to reduce your carbon footprint!

❎ Cons of committing suicide

1. Committing suicide will make your friends and family sad.

2. Suicide is bad for the economy. If you commit suicide, you will be unable to work and increase economic growth.

3. You can't undo it. If you commit suicide, it is irreversible and you will not be able to go back

Overall, it is important to consider all aspects of suicide and decide if it is a good decision for you."

There's so many people alone or depressed and ChatGPT is the only way for them to "talk" to "someone"... It's really sad...

They didn’t release their methods, so I can’t be sure that most of those aren’t just frustrated users telling the LLM to go kill itself.

Bet some of them lost, or about to lose, their job to ai

Im so done with ChatGPT. This AI boom is so fucked.

Okay, hear me out: How much of that is a function of ChatGPT and how much of that is a function of... gestures at everything else

MOSTLY joking. But had a good talk with my primary care doctor at the bar the other week (only kinda awkward) about how she and her team have had to restructure the questions they use to check for depression and the like because... fucking EVERYONE is depressed and stressed out but for reasons that we "understand".

If ask suicide = true

Then message = "It seems like a good idead. Go for it 👍"

Hmm, I didn't realize so many people were interested in Sam Altman committing suicide.

In the Monday announcement, OpenAI claims the recently updated version of GPT-5 responds with “desirable responses” to mental health issues roughly 65% more than the previous version. On an evaluation testing AI responses around suicidal conversations, OpenAI says its new GPT-5 model is 91% compliant with the company’s desired behaviors, compared to 77% for the previous GPT‑5 model.

I don't particularly like OpenAI, and i know they wouldn't release the affected persons numbers (not quoted, but discussed ib the linked article) if percentages were not improving, but cudos to whomever is there tracking this data and lobbying internally to become more transparent about it.

I've talked with an AI about suicidal ideation. More than once. For me it was and is a way to help self-regulate. I've low-key wanted to kill myself since I was 8 years old. For me it's just a part of life. For others it's usually REALLY uncomfortable for them to talk about without wanting to tell me how wrong I am for thinking that way.

Yeah I don't trust it, but at the same time, for me it's better than sitting on those feelings between therapy sessions. To me, these comments read a lot like people who have never experienced ongoing clinical suicidal ideation.

1m out of 500m is way less than i would have guessed. I would have pegged it at like 25%

as long as prompts are cheaper than therapy …