Posted on 10/24/2025 4:13:22 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
No one told him it’s a fake human
Now the owner of the tool and the maker might be held to have some liability but that is very legally iffy ground to go on.
LLM's reflect you back to you. With all your faults and failings.
This kind of reflection is not mentally or emotionally healthy.
The programmer’s boss’ boss that paid the salary. Death penalty. Fer real.
So it is completely autonomous and created and hosted itself?
There’s a lot of people on FR that converse with chatbots on the site - even though they’ve been told about the chat bot.
I hope she sues the company into oblivion and let it serve as a warning to the rest.
So the owner of the ball-throwing machine has no responsibility?
He named the chatbot “DAENERYS TARGARYEN”? That kid had a lot more problems and issues than loving a chatbot. Anyone could have played that character in a chat with him.
New legal ground to plow.
Avoid the one named Niska
Should a knife or razor blade manufacturer, or seller of purified water be responsible for someone stabbing themselves to death or drinking so much water to die of hyponatremia? Doubt it.
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The programmers and owner may have liability. But it is only a may because at no time did the program tell him to kill himself or even hint at doing so. In fact it specifically told him not to do so.
That he was so deep into fantasy that he thought that killing himself in the real world would transport him to the fictional one is clear. But how much of that was due to the interactions with the chatbot and how much was due to the fact that he seems to have been slowly unraveling for some time?
It is going to be an interesting case to watch.
What is quite sad is that the teen seems to have had no one in the real world who made him feel loved and valued. Maybe it was his parents splitting up, maybe it was his younger siblings getting attention who knows?
But the story is a sad one and really just makes me dig in more firmly on my opinion that there is really no benefit to minors being on social media.
It really doesn’t matter if the operator of the chatbot is responsible or not. All that matters is that ambulance chasers will get in on the act and it will be cheaper to settle than to go to trial.
Some companies hold the line quite firmly on the "we didn't do nothing" side pour encourager les autres. I think this will be one of those cases.
Normally the result is lawyers get paid, nothing else happens. And this kind of thing rarely helps with the grief.
No.
Same reason you can’t sue Ford when you die wrecking your Super Snake Mustang.
The consequences of your stupidity are yours, alone.
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