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(Not an AI stan) I would like to see the evidence that the AI contributed to the suicide.

Without seeing the evidence this feels like a cynical attempt to make political hay out of a tragedy.

The person whose AI companion forms their most important social connection is already not doing well psychologically. And from what I’ve seen, they only offer salubrious advice.

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Here is an article by CNN about the suicide with glimpse of conversation between the teen and the chatbot. https://edition.cnn.com/2024/10/30/tech/teen-suicide-charact...

I personnaly think it's like the relation between some massacre and videogames, where the attackers were already mentaly ill before committing the act.

But I wonder, we know people (even kids) can make a difference between reality and a videogame. But will we be able to make a difference between a chatbot and a real human ?

Humans tend to be less sycophantic than llms in my experience.

Very hard to tell which way causality goes on that though.

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