[GoatInGrey]

I find it hard to believe that you fail to understand that vulnerable people can be influenced and manipulated into acting against their own welfare. Domestic sexual abuse of children is the simpler-to-understand form of this dynamic. Where emotional needs are exploited to direct the person's behavior to your personal benefit.

It is in these situations where the human performing the manipulation is the one responsible and not the victim.

Put another way, if you discovered that you were incidentally killing children each time you drove down a particular road, would you choose an alternative road or drive faster in an attempt to avoid detection?

[oatmeal1]

Calling a chatbot yes-man a manipulator in this case is unreasonable. If you take a drama class and then believe you have become the King of England and try to attack Scotland, that isn't the fault of the drama teacher.

There are all kinds of products we know people will misuse for violence (guns, cars, knives), but we do not hold makers of these products accountable because it isn't reasonable to blame them for what a fringe minority do.