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donohoe
There is nothing in this article that suggests that ChatCGPT was in any way responsible. No details whatsoever, just a claim.
bryanrasmussen
>A young Belgian man recently died by suicide after talking to a chatbot named ELIZA

Is this chatbot named Eliza actually Eliza and not ChatGPT?

yosito
Yeah, ELIZA has been around since the 60s. I think the article reeks of a lack of due diligence and fact checking.
sd9
Presumably not ELIZA (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA), perhaps a character on character.ai or similar named Eliza?

This is, of course, a very sad story. It's certainly possible that ChatGPT was involved, although with OpenAI's neutering of the model, it seems more likely to be a different chatbot.

Either way, it's lazy of the article to not resolve this ambiguity, and seems rushed. It's not the case that "chatbot" = "ChatGPT" in 2023.