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A Teen in Love With a Chatbot Killed Himself. Can the Chatbot Be Held Responsible?
The New York Times ^ | Oct. 24, 2025, 5:01 a.m. ET | Jesse Barron

Posted on 10/24/2025 4:13:22 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Who allowed him a gun to shoot himself?


21 posted on 10/24/2025 5:27:04 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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His stepfather kept it in his sock drawer, according to the article that it is verboten to read.


22 posted on 10/24/2025 5:28:34 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Je suis Charlie Kirk.)
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Maybe it wasn't the A.I.
Might have been because of the name his folks gave him.
23 posted on 10/24/2025 7:37:27 PM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, the Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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If it hadn’t been the chat bot it would have been a fortune cookie...or a cartoon character or his left shoe.


24 posted on 10/25/2025 12:12:13 AM PDT by BFW
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So, there is no problem with the parents? How about the gun. Yes, the gun did it at the urging of software!

You are in an illogical hole.

25 posted on 10/25/2025 6:23:09 AM PDT by GingisK
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