No, I don’t think they do. There are some objectively rough scenes, but no swear words, IIRC.

It was just a post about how AI works.

This is the full context:

Do you have a kickstarter?

(e: Oh, wait, I was thinking of the political ecology, not making ecology political. I still agree with you, though. Perhaps slightly less enthusiastically.)

My favourite lately is putting them in a logic loop. Eventually, they get fake-frustrated.

Holy shit, really?

That’s fine, I’m isolated and introverted, too.

Just support social programmes, vote for social issues, etc. You don’t have to engage, just don’t oppose systems that help people (human rights, healthcare, etc). You’re good!

Remember folks: the reason we’re so successful as humans throughout the past 100,000 years is because of empathy. We take care of each other, and that makes us strong. The fascist ‘everyone for themself’ mentality will doom us. Don’t let sociopaths spread their mental cancer.

Come on, people now, smile on your brother.

but you can’t blame a machine for doing something that it doesn’t even understand.

But you can blame the creators and sellers of that machine for operating unethically.

If I build and sell a coffee maker that sometimes malfunctions and kills people, I’ll be sued into oblivion, and my coffee maker will be removed from the market. You don’t blame the coffee maker, but you absolutely hold the creator accountable.

You should read the filing.

Google might have clinically told him things, but it wouldn’t have encouraged him, telling him he should hide the marks on his neck from a previous failed attempt by wearing a black turtleneck, telling him how to tie the knot next time, and telling him to hide his feelings from his parents and others.

His parents had him in therapy. He also told the AI he wanted to leave a noose out where his parents would find it, and the AI told him not to. It actively encouraged him to hide all this from his parents. A Google search wouldn’t do that, and it sounds like his parents did care.

They had Adam in therapy. It sounds like they were getting him the help he needed, but ChatGPT told him it was his closest friend and to hide his feelings from his parents and others. If that was happening, whatever mental healthcare he was getting would have been undermined by the AI.

Illegal != immoral

Yes. Yes, they are.

I parented a teen boy. Sometimes, no matter what you do and no matter how close you were before puberty, a switch flips outside your control and they won’t talk to you anymore. We were a typical family, no abuse, no fighting, nobody on drugs, both parents with 9-5 office jobs, very engaged with school and etc.

Thankfully, after riding it out (getting him therapy, giving space, respect, and support), he came out the other side fine. But there were a few harrowing years during that phase.

I went through a similar phase in my teens. If AI was there to feed my issues, I might not have survived it. Teenage hormones are a helluva drug.

No weed. Just pure unfiltered ignorance.