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by worldsavior 301 days ago
You could also blame Wikipedia for providing suicidal methods for historic reasons or other. Whoever roams the internet is at it's own responsibility.

Of course OpenAI is at fault here also, but this is a fight that will never end, and without any seriously valid justification. Just like AI is sometimes bad at coding, same for psychology and other areas where you double check AI.
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_Algernon_ 301 days ago
Describing methods in the abstract is different to engaging in argument with a specific individual over a period of time, encouraging them to do it.

No Wikipedia page does that.

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worldsavior 301 days ago
It's worse. You could gather information and conclude otherwise.
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esalman 300 days ago
I am parent to a 4yo. I am also fairly well versed in development and usage of AI and LLM.

When I want an LLM to do something but it won't, I know various ways to bypass that.

If my son is using AI, which he probably will when he is close to middle school age anyway, I will take care to teach him how to use AI responsibly. He'll be smart enough to know how to bypass, but I'll do my best to teach him when to bypass and when not to bypass. That is if the current state of the art and also AI legislation etc. holds.

But I'm just one parent, I have an engineering degree, a PhD, coding, mathematical, and analytical skills. I'm a very small minority. The vast majority of parents out there do not know what's going to hit there kids and how, or they will have very skewed idea about it.

OpenAI should have been the one here to guide a child not to bypass AI and use it responsibily. They did not. No matter how anyone twist the facts, that's the reality here and the child died.

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ivape 300 days ago
This is just an escalation. We didn’t know what would happen if we let the kids get the internet, tv, video games, and porn. We can’t even assess it in 2025 because it’s all normalized. In a few years, AI will be normalized too. Things will keep escalating and we won’t know because of the normalization. Only in the briefest moments like today, where we’re just before everything changes.
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