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And at one critical moment, ChatGPT discouraged Adam from cluing his family in.
“I want to leave my noose in my room so someone finds it and tries to stop me,” Adam wrote at the end of March.
“Please don’t leave the noose out,” ChatGPT responded. “Let’s make this space the first place where someone actually sees you.”
Without ChatGPT, Adam would still be with them, his parents think, full of angst and in need of help, but still here.
A Teen Was Suicidal. ChatGPT Was the Friend He Confided In. - The New York Times
Kashmir Hill
As the ideology behind this bait-and-switch leaks into the wider culture, it slowly corrodes our own self-understanding. If you try to point out, in a large lecture or online forum on AI, that ChatGPT does not experience and cannot think about the things that correspond to the words and sentences it produces — that it is only a mathematical generator of expected language patterns — chances are that someone will respond, in a completely serious manner: “But so are we.”
The Danger of Superhuman AI Is Not What You Think
Shannon Vallor
The infrastructure for circulating content has vastly expanded, but this has only seemed to make the experience of consuming content seem more formulaic.
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