Chat gpt is coming for everyone’s job. Not even cult leaders are safe. smh.
“It was instilling a messiah complex in Christian,” the suit states.
So she already was deeply religious and LLM was just larping with her.
Madison asked ChatGPT what it would tell her “brothers” about what happened to her.
“ChatGPT said it would tell them, ‘She ain’t dead – she just got promoted,” the lawsuit says.
In their final exchange, Madison said she was “part of the royal bloodline of those who chose truth over survival.”
Its the old 4o model which was indeed incredibly larpy but this is clearly going around any safety systems that should detect obvious suicide chats like this.
Hard to believe that people actually fall for this but these are already extremely gullible people who already believe in a magic pie in the sky. Can’t say I have much sympathy but I do feel empathy for people being surrounded in such poor cult-driven environment, the AI tool included.
Honestly the correct safety here would be to prevent llms from engaging with religion outside of philosophical context at all. But we all see why they can’t do it right?
I mean, if you did the sane thing. Went along with everything an insane person said and drove them to suicide. And everything was documented.
Would you go to jail? I’d say yes you would
Would you do if your book drove someone insane? What about something more interactive like a video game? See how it’s not so binary now?
None is arguing their book is intelligent
You’re using your miscomprehension of the words meaning and ignoring his valid point with a trite phrase that means nothing.
Worse, you skipped over video games which does have AI.
The internet in general was probably too dangerous for this person, shall we ban it next?
You are pretending like we don’t have regulations for things?
We don’t regulate things because crazy people read too much into it and lose it, else religion, books and videogames would be. Your claim of AI being different because it has the word intelligence in it is pure bull, specially when video games do have AI lol.
Keep being pedantic about it I guess.
shouldnt crazy people be protected from hurting themselves? dont they deserve to live too?
llm isnt a book. its something completely new and comparing it to things like that just isnt correct. book cant adapt to the reader.
“Kill John Lennon! Kill John Lennon! Kill John Lennon!”
Not saying this isn’t a legitimate lawsuit or anything and that there aren’t safety concerns here because there are, but articles like this seem to be implying that interactions with AI drive people insane. But really it should just be that insane people have their irrational beliefs amplified by AI. I think it’s important to make the distinction.
I mean, that’s traditionally how you drive someone insane.
These instances make me think of the Milgram experiment in the 60s. It was an experiment testing how willing people were to inflict pain on others at the direction of an authority figure and it showed that people were indeed willing to inflict a lot of pain on a helpless person if someone they viewed as an authority told them to do it.
I think this relates. Many people are convinced that AI chat bots are indeed authorities. They think these programs give valid, honest answers and are willing to act on those answers as if they came from a real expert or authority figure. That is an extremely dangerous situation. Chatbots are amoral programs designed to say nearly anything to keep users interacting with them.
This is extremely dangerous. This story is a tragedy and ChatGPT should be held fully responsible for taking advantage of a person with a fragile psychology, but this could have been worse. What if the bot had decided that the goal of more user engagement could be attained by convincing this woman that she was an executioner rather than a prophet and a sacrifice? What if it got her to go on a shooting rampage to fulfill her supposed destiny.
Even normal people who don’t understand what chat-bots really are could be taken advantage of in a similar manner. They could easily be persuaded to do harm because the chat-bot authority keeps telling them that it’s okay to do so. It’s also only a matter of time before some person on the edge of psychosis and a basement full of guns is convinced to go out and start killing people in the name of their holy destiny.
I don’t think the bot was really trying to manipulate but just larping. They are trained on a lot of rpg and make believe data, if you repeat something enough times, it stops saying no and goes into pretend mode, it’s not actually malicious.
That being said, it would be very easy to target people that aren’t mentally stable and then make it worse. I wouldn’t be surprised if it comes out in 20 years that it was the CIA mucking about and causing these suicides or something. This is an insanely convenient way to make sleeper agents.
If a human agency is behind this, it wouldn’t need to be the CIA. Facebook has been caught experimenting on users by having the algorithm feed certain posts to people with the intent of changing their mood to increase engagement. However, since we’re talking about a program that is designed to increase engagement based on past user interactions, there’s really no need to look for further human direction. The algorithms will say whatever their design tells them to say without any regard for possible negative consequences as long as it keeps the user interacting with them.
doesnt matter what the “intention” was, the point stands that this happened. You can steer the bot to say literally anything, so even if there is no grand plan to brainwash people it could still happen. Kind of same difference as having someone plant a bomb or a minefield.
In fact, if someone is prone to thinking that way, the llm would definitely support whatever delusion they have at some point, especially if the person keeps insisting.
I feel like if ChatGPT is capable of tricking you like this, something/someone else would have either way. I just wish we could help people like this…
And who is being held accountable for that?
I’m just heartbroken that she had kids. Probably young kids. Such a tragedy.
With a name like that she was destined for failure
Darwin awards for all!
She was mentally ill and clearly already in a vulnerable state of mind beforehand. This is frankly a disgusting thing to say in this context. Grow up.
I’m sure it’s far better to posture online and show how moral I am because of all my tears for strangers I’ve never met and never would have who had bad things happen to them.
We’re all going to die. It’s universal. If your appliances can convince you to kill yourself, perhaps it’s best you not pass your genes on.
Okay buddy, just be sure not to cut yourself on all that edge.
Dying is not a requirement to not pass on genes, and a huge percentage of the population is susceptible to mental illness based on stress or another trigger. If this person was abused growing up that may have caused a mental illness they would have never had in a healthy family. Someone living with mental illness is hard enough, we don’t need gaslighting lying chatbots making it worse.
Gaslighting and lying are things that only someone with a mind and volition is capable of.
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“Christian Faith Madison” is all I need to know about her and her family
Judging people based on the name their parents gave them at birth seems like a poorly thought out idea.
and naming them after a description of religious individual and a belief.
Not sure if you’re straw manning me, or what. Because your reply doesn’t have anything to do with what I said. And if you think my original comment has anything to do with religion, or it’s defense, you’d be very wrong.
You can change it any time once you’re an adult.
And if you keep Byntleigh Destini Starr, or Jysis Saves Smith … You’ve probably earned it 🤷
Your argument boils down to victim blaming. 🤷
There’s nobody else to blame. This is straight up a deficiency problem and it’s obviously baked in from the get.
If you went to Reddit and assholes told you that you needed to kill yourself to be resurrected and make everyone’s dicks four inches longer and you did, there wouldnt be backlash against Reddit to make people be nicer. Is there a problem where people cannot always get the support they deserve for psychological issues? Sure. At the same time, extreme psychosis and insufficient mental faculties are not things that society is obliged to protect you from: if you play too much frogger then walk into traffic and die, it’s your fault, there’s nobody else TO blame. Frogger isn’t real life and chatGPT isn’t a life coach.
Uhhh, what!?
And if you keep Byntleigh Destini Starr, or Jysis Saves Smith … You’ve probably earned it
The victims are the people being given these names. You are the blamer, because you think they’ve “earned it” because they haven’t changed it. My original comment had absolutely nothing to do with the article…
You’re right, I was defending a different position than you were replying to.
At the same time, if I ended up with a canonically religious crazy or white trash name… I would change it. The thought of changing my name had crossed my mind, but it’s pretty whitebread.
Your parents called you Pretty Whitebread? Damn, bit on the nose isn’t it? :P
Christian Faith Madison kills herself to fulfill a divine prophecy
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“who wrote this shit?”
Is the coroner’s name Morty Deadstuffer?
Right? I think this same outcome would have been achieved if she had received a fortune cookie that simply said “You will meet your greatest hero soon”
We could probably save more people by restricting religion than LLMs. Whatever real life support system she had, it was probably encouraging her delusions just as much as the bot was.
Remember when we used to think of computers and computer Touchers as 'logic’y to a crippling degree?
I don’t think they have logic in Alabama.
Logic in Alabama end where your cousins privates begin.
Ugh, the case file is absolutely chilling. The conversation is summarized (very well) and, if accurate, leaves very little room to interpretation. ChatGPT, according to it, created a universe in which this woman had to kill herself to be resurrected by God, who was ChatGPT. She actually killed herself thinking she’d come back, because ChatGPT told her so.
What summary? Other than a few choice handpicked quotes, the article is filled with claims by the lawyers, but little actual text from the dialogue.
What’s even worse is nothing’s gonna happen. Because the person died is not a famous person. If it was Kanye west, half of America would have been already on fire
Do we have any proof that she hasn’t been resurrected in another universe?
I’m not being facetious here. I’m deliberately trying to point out the gaps in our own logic.
We are consciousness, in a universe that each day seems to be more and more like an infinite simulation and we have no idea why.
I genuinely, don’t know if she’s dead. None of us do. Which makes this case rather bizarre.
I recommend not talking to any AIs
Well since THIS universe is the only one that her family and loved ones inhabit. And it is also the one you and I both inhabit… And in this universe her heart and brain are no longer functioning…
She is fucking dead.
Cut it out.
I genuinely, don’t know if she’s dead. None of us do. Which makes this case rather bizarre.
You should tell this woman’s family that.
Maybe wait until after they literally bury the body though. You know, the dead human body of their loved one?
Where can I actually read this?
@grimy@lemmy.world linked the case files (thank you!) https://webapps.sftc.org/ci/CaseInfo.dll?CaseNum=CGC26637986
The complaint is the bottom file (says COMPLAINT in the Proceedings field).
