[imiric]

Playing devil's advocate, many people die using all kinds of tools. It doesn't make the tools any less useful for people who use them responsibly.

That said, the idea that a pattern recognition and generation tool can be used for helping people with emotional problems is deeply unsettling and dangerous. This technology needs to be strictly regulated yesterday.

[tim333]

If you use 300 million people, 2 years and the US suicide rate of 15/100k/yr you'd expect about 90,000 people who'd used LLMs to kill themselves anyway so it's hard to conclude much from the dozen or people listed in the Wikipedia article. 90k deaths seems a lot to me - maybe there are possibilities for good LLM assistance/therapy to improve things?