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Inside a mass shooter’s harrowing history with ChatGPT
www.motherjones.com/media/2026/08/openai-chatgpt-fsu-mass-shooting-chat-logs/posted in Technology
Inside a mass shooter’s harrowing history with ChatGPT
www.motherjones.com/media/2026/08/openai-chatgpt-fsu-mass-shooting-chat-logs/Replying to @GolfFoxtrotLima@sh.itjust.works
AI companies cannot be allowed to hide behind “it wasn’t me!” defences.
Replying to @MrSulu@lemmy.ml
Why should OpenAI be held responsible for this particular incident? Because their LLM recommended the user to contact a suicide hotline when he expressed his suicidal thoughts? Because it correctly answered his questions and confirmed that the safety of his shotgun was off? Don’t get me wrong, I like having companies held accountable as much as the next guy, but why don’t you ask the gun production companies to be held responsible as well? Hell, we might as well be asking for his parents to be held accountable for their offspring’s actions.
Yes, LLM’s can, with or without external manipulation, provide information about sensitive subjects, which can then be consumed by vulnerable individuals who may act in a harmful way. That individual would have acted and reached the same outcome not matter if the LLM would have existed or not, because there are multiple options to using an LMM to gather information.
What are the realistic expectations of OpenAI to implement to prevent these things, that doesn’t automatically mean stricter restrictions to the user data privacy and further strengthen the control of citizens (thanks to the flourishing relationship between OpenAI and the American government)?
Replying to @RandomHugs@lemmy.world
LLM AI is just like a Google search 🤡
Replying to @Kewlio250@lemmy.zip
Such a thoughtful, elaborated response. And a emoji included as well, to really capture the feeling of being written by an adult.
Replying to @RandomHugs@lemmy.world
Post clown content, get clown responses.
IMO the reply was exactly what your post deserved. Just because your post was long doesn’t mean it was intelligent or even valid. You posted a bad take, and got justifiably called out. Take the L and learn from it, or are you not an adult either?
Replying to @DeathbringerThoctar@lemmy.world
If your reason to be on an online forum is to discuss, disprove, or change the beliefs of an stranger online, a good idea is to actually try.
If you’re hunting precious updoots with snarky one-line comments that are parroting the ideas of internet culture, then this is not the place for it.
Replying to @SuspiciousCarrot78@aussie.zone
That was the point I was trying to make in my original comment. I don’t think there is, and I don’t think OpenAI even care at this point given their track record of bad PR. They are already in bed with the government, they can’t really be touched until that changes first.
Replying to @RandomHugs@lemmy.world
Oh, I wasn’t headed in that direction, however true it ultimately may be. More commenting on the “no pleasing the masses” scenario they’ve gotten themselves into.
Though upon further considering, it may very well be they only need to do the bare minimum while they strive towards those ends you hint at.