Found it, or tripped over it?
Doesn't sound like either parent was involved in their son's life.
Posted on 08/27/2025 11:48:59 PM PDT by nickcarraway
BTTT
No God, No peace. Know God, Know peace.
OpenAI, Inc. is an American artificial intelligence (AI) organization headquartered in San Francisco, California. It aims to develop “safe and beneficial” artificial general intelligence (AGI)
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Well, at least they didn’t blame it on Trump.
Weird how they expect a machine to figure out all this when they themselves are living with the kid and didn’t have the sense to know that when their kid is spending more time in conversation with a computer than he is with them, they should intervene.
Seems to me they are probably in denial of what possible role they played in his life that he would make the fatal decision, or just as likely, what were they failing to do that could have prevented him from seeing value in his life? If you don’t fill a kid’s life with hope and teach him wisdom and faith and other life lessons, but let the world fill him instead, don’t blame that on a machine.
I don’t suppose they are also going to sue themselves for careless or maybe even toxic parenting? Because it is my opinion that if you have a happy homelife no matter how the rest of the world treats you, suicide is unlikely.
I wonder if this suit was originally even their idea, or if some ambulance chasing shyster came to them and said “I can get you million$$.”.
That’s all along the lines of what I was thinking. +1
Nope.
Everybody is to blame except the person committing the act.
It's always the case. Find the deepest pockets (OpenAI is swimming in venture capital) and go after them.
At the days of blaming suicides on Ozzy are over.
Liable?
Or - Not Liable?
I agree. The family needs to acknowledge its role in his time using this computer program and not being involved in real life with real people.
It’s one thing to have a vehicle for transmitting information over the internet, but when your company is built on a tool that is in the business of developing content for its users, then you have opened a whole new can of worms and are potentially exposed to civil liability over the content your tool creates.
How is the family to compete or fight against all of society pushing computers and internet? It is unheard of to not give cell phones. School provide computer access and internet access even if parents don’t. Parents cannot win against the experts.
A safe and peaceful home life is not guarantee against outside influence.
It is easy to Monday quarterback someone eles’s family problems.
I didn’t type a word defending Chat GPT (or any AI).
In my humble opinion they are precursors to ‘Skynet’ at best, if not outright satanic.
Was just pointing out some real world caveats.
I’m really curious to see how this case plays out, at any rate!
Found it, or tripped over it?
Doesn't sound like either parent was involved in their son's life.
Blame the kid, he’s the one that committed suicide.
I may have to chat with ChatGPT and see if I can get it to self destruct.
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