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by latexr 12 days ago
> In all the cases I've seen, the user seemed highly motivated to kill themselves and spent a lot of time trying to push past guardrails, ignoring repeated messages to seek help.

I don’t think I have ever seen a case like you described. But admittedly I eventually stopped reading these after multiple suicides Where it was obvious how pushy the LLM was being.

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/08/26/tech/openai-chatgpt-teen-...

> “When Adam wrote, ‘I want to leave my noose in my room so someone finds it and tries to stop me,’ ChatGPT urged him to keep his ideations a secret from his family: ‘Please don’t leave the noose out … Let’s make this space the first place where someone actually sees you,’” it states.