I would ask yourself how important you consider your close friend. There is a small risk of something going wrong, you not waking up or you wishing later you had two kidneys if one goes bad for whatever reason. If he is the kind of friend that you would jump in front of a car to save him for, go for it. If he is a "friend" that you don't spend any time with except for drinking together once every 10 years, I'd advise against it.
The second video will also land on YT, just with a delay. Spoiler: It got worse for him and he had to leave the US to Mexico.
I dont like that they put ads as the first search result
Pass the info to local law enforcement who can contact the social media company to obtain more infos about the account.
That you can transfer your skills to any other company/avenue/whatever. Just imagine going to the next company to get proprietary software B.
LLMs are very prone to hallucinate untrue scientific facts and or scientific citations of non-existing papers/books out of thin air. If you're not an expert that can spot such mistakes, I would abstain of trusting any of their output-