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The dangers of AI. A ChatGPT story

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the parents of a boy who committed suicide with the help of ChatGPT speak to Megyn with their lawyer. This chatbot facilitated a young boy’s suicide. Parents and grandparents- be careful about what your kids are doing online.

 
When I first became a network manager (ca. 1995) I cautioned faculty about this type of thing. Would you give your child a free, long-distance phone line in the bedroom, where anyone in the world could contact your child in private? Probably not.

But we give them smartphones as early as elementary school - and let them have their fun with no parental supervision.

Very very sad.


Edit: https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-...-safety-openai-meta-characterai-teens-suicide
 
NutmegCT said:
When I first became a network manager (ca. 1995) I cautioned faculty about this type of thing. Would you give your child a free, long-distance phone line in the bedroom, where anyone in the world could contact your child in private? Probably not.

But we give them smartphones as early as elementary school - and let them have their fun with no parental supervision.

Very very sad.


Edit: https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-...-safety-openai-meta-characterai-teens-suicide
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Parents (and grandparents) need to be aware of these dangers and be proactive in talking to the kiddos about it.
 
Not to mention it also keeps kids from learning to really think and question and verify the information they're getting. AI is already known for making up "facts" and seeming to work to be agreeable to what's being asked of it. Personally I can't see ever getting into ChatGPT or others, I just can't trust what I might be seeing.
 
This is beginning to remind me of the "companion robots" and "robot ai pets" used to combat loneliness.

If something is created to make us feel better, we'll use it. The big danger of course is that people (teens, elderly, etc.) who feel lonely, or feel that other people "don't understand them", will use AI to feel better. AI "listens" and doesn't say "I'm busy - Parents in Room - Gotta go now". Users aren't looking for "truth", they're looking for acceptance and understanding.

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Imagine the despair Adam felt when his mom said nothing about the neck bruising from trying to hang himself, but chatgpt said he should change his shirt because people would notice. I think in this particular case, AI was just the last leg on a doomed journey. It would be nice if family was always a safe haven where you could confide with your parents. I wish I had had that.
 
Greg - that's a long-forgotten issue. When young people don't have a stable adult to guide them, bad things can happen.

Kids who "don't fit in" often join groups of others who "don't fit in". Those groups are alienated, ridiculed, and/or ignored by those who *do* fit in. And those "don't fit in" groups often give very bad (or very good) advice. Very sad.

Ask me how I know.
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Yes, involved parents who can listen and calmly react to what's said. Offer advice, maybe share youth experiences and how they went through them. Help them find interests/passions for things in the world that fascinate them. I was not popular as a kid, never invited to birthday parties, to hang with others outside my small group of other misfit friends. I was a band and choir geek even with playing baseball and swimming through my teens. But, I also had dreams of after high school and college, things I wanted to see and do so being snubbed by most of my age peers didn't really bother me. Each of us, particularly the outsiders need to be helped to discover what they want as life progresses and how little in that big picture being ignored or pushed around really means and to appreciate those involved parents or find adults that will help discover that path if their folks ignore them too. My folks were those involved volunteers at school and outside activities for my brothers and I, and in fact for years
after the youngest graduated till their health eventually stopped it. Crowded funerals back then with all those who knew them from that and felt a loss too.
 
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