Large Language Models like ChatGPT have lead people to their deaths, often by suicide. This site serves to remember those who have been affected, to call out the dangers of AI that claims to be intelligent, and the corporations that are responsible.
Looking forward to mobilephonedeathcount.com and computernetworkingdeathcount.com because most of them accessed the LLM through those technologies.
This is an incredibly manipulative propaganda piece that seeks to blame companies for mental health issues of the user. We don't blame any other forms of media that pretend to interact with the user for consumer's suicides.
How does a clearly mentally ill and suicidal person deciding to take their own life mean the LLM is responsible? That’s silly. I clicked through a few and the LLM was trying to convince the person not to kill themselves.
I don't know how to feel about this until it is put in relative terms, if the claims are to be believed then out of 200m users that is a fairly low number, suspiciously low to be exact compared to how badly AI can feed into delusions.
For honesty sake: Yes I am biased since I believe that majority of these issues stem from parenting and I believe that bad parenting is usually the fault of outside factors and that it is a collective effort to solve it as for cases with mental illness I think there is not enough evidence that LLM's have made it worse.
The problem is that we also don't know how many lives it's saved. I'm serious! Someone I know was is crisis, and the thing that got her off the ledge in the middle of the night her wasn't calls to me going to voicemail, but her talking to ChatGPT. If we want to just rage against AI/robots/technology because we saw terminator and the robots are going to take our job, let's just admit that bias and not pretend this is a discussion, but in this real life trolley problem, yes people are dying but it's also saving lives because basically no one is rich enough to have their therapist on speed dial to call at 3am in a moment of crisis but ChatGPT is.
The impossible thing is that we can't know the numbers on the other side of the tracks, and even if we did, the trolley problem is a philosophical question without a solution because it's not a math equation with one right answer.
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[ 4.2 ms ] story [ 32.8 ms ] threadThis is an incredibly manipulative propaganda piece that seeks to blame companies for mental health issues of the user. We don't blame any other forms of media that pretend to interact with the user for consumer's suicides.
The "chatbot" format is a cognitive hazard, and places users in a funhouse mirror maze reflecting back all sorts of mental and conceptual distortions.
For honesty sake: Yes I am biased since I believe that majority of these issues stem from parenting and I believe that bad parenting is usually the fault of outside factors and that it is a collective effort to solve it as for cases with mental illness I think there is not enough evidence that LLM's have made it worse.
Of course I'm not trying to suggest that these deaths are not tragedy, but the help it gives is so much more.
Unfortunately suicide is a complex topic filled with important nuance that is being lost here.
Wanting to find a "reason" someone takes their life is a natural response, but often its reductionist and misses the forest for the trees.
The impossible thing is that we can't know the numbers on the other side of the tracks, and even if we did, the trolley problem is a philosophical question without a solution because it's not a math equation with one right answer.