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by miltonlost 164 days ago
Or maybe ChatGPT can also be at fault for the text that they create and put out into the world. Did you read the chats?
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Would anyone have luck suing a person on some random bodybuilding forum who was similarly sycophantic? ChatGPT didn’t invent strangers on the internet flattering your psychosis.
Families have had some success with cases like this, a girlfriend went to jail for 5 years for encouraging her boyfriend to kill himself:

https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/11/us/michelle-carter-texting-su...

William Dinkel posed online as a suicidal nurse and encouraged people to kill themselves and was found guilty:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Melchert-Dinkel

Solicitation to commit murder is a crime.