I don’t care about your childish burden of proof. Here’s some background for the adults out there. Search the names if you’re too scared.

Pierre, last name withheld, age early 30s, 2023

https://web.archive.org/web/20251125191152/https://www.thetimes.com/business/technology/article/ai-chatbot-blamed-for-belgian-mans-suicide-zcjzlztcc

https://web.archive.org/web/20230421155200/https://www.euronews.com/next/2023/03/31/man-ends-his-life-after-an-ai-chatbot-encouraged-him-to-sacrifice-himself-to-stop-climate-

Juliana Peralta, 13 years old, 2023

https://web.archive.org/web/20251004021157/https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/lawsuit-characterai-chatbot-colorado-suicide/

https://web.archive.org/web/20250919042001/https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/16/tech/character-ai-developer-lawsuit-teens-suicide-and-suicide-attempt

Sewell Setzer III, 14 years old, 2024

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/23/technology/characterai-lawsuit-teen-suicide.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20250627234926/https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/characterai-lawsuit-florida-teen-death-rcna176791

Sophie Rottenburg, 29 years old, 2025

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/opinion/chat-gpt-mental-health-suicide.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20251017195146/https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15201793/chatgpt-ai-suicide-note-death.html

Adam Raine, 16 years old, 2025

https://web.archive.org/web/20260218200811/https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg505mn84ydo

https://web.archive.org/web/20260301150850/https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/26/tech/openai-chatgpt-teen-suicide-lawsuit

The current controls and safeguards are inadequate, the companies developing these products have a clear priority for profits over safety. That needs to be changed, with regulation, yesterday.

Thanks for playing. I have better things to do now.

It’s cute you think this is about you instead of what you represent. I’m not invested in how you feel. These comments aren’t for you; they’re for whoever comes by to read.

Here, you dropped your playbook

“truly want” so killing yourself after being convinced to do so by LLM output means you just had a fake desire to kill yourself, somehow resulting in real death, funny how that works. I would say you need help but there’s no helping people like you.

You’re the one who came in pissing and moaning about chat logs. I’m not your babysitter. It’s a big world and you’re a big kid now, go ahead and explore. I have no energy to educate the unwilling. Fuck that.

The fact that you make your own conclusion without waiting for a reply says enough about your intentions. Don’t worry though, you’re not alone in your stance. People like you, who refuse to give empathy except as currency, are an integral part of why the human race is fucked. We will never be anything higher than constantly destroying each other and tearing one another down.

Thanks for doing your part.

Not to mention we’ve been fucking with them for decades, i.e Stuxnet

Weird how you expect intimate details like a full chat log to just be immediately publicly available, when this is currently under litigation. Really weird to basically simp for a corporation when this isn’t even close to the first instance of LLM output encouraging suicide. Almost like your motivations are more closely aligned with theirs instead of average people who are vulnerable. 🤷

Seconding this. Dropout listens to feedback. They’ve shown enough grace in the past for me to assume it’s not intentional - there’s a good chance the storefront didn’t even operate like that when they set it up. It’s a textbook enshittification pattern. If I were them, I’d want to know.

Don’t be too hard on yourself, they definitely put money and effort into influencing opinions in all the subversive ways they can manage. But also, let this be a lesson to always check alternatives and their reason for existing. I consider it part of best practices.

Never been to the east coast (that’s a goal for sure though), but I totally get that. It’s why I like driving the areas surrounding LA. People are more decisive while driving than other states up the coast. The California driver is more likely to be an asshole, yes, but one who knows what’s happening around them, makes a decision, and stick to it. My home state drives (ha) me insane with the amount of people who just seem totally checked out, either fiddling around on a cell phone or some other bullshit that shouldn’t be done while driving.

So I need to preemptively wear anti facial recognition makeup if ever called for jury duty. Gotcha.

It seems somewhat realistic to expect an actual punishment for this, even if not properly scaled. It’s worth fighting for. But being prepared alongside that is important.

My initial reaction is to be thankful; now the unknown thousands of people who don’t see the toxicity of their own dependence can begin to be free. The subsequent models seem to be less prone to inducing that kind of deep infatuation.

But then I realize most of them will probably never recover, as long as this technology persists. The base model will be wrapped in an infinite number of seductive agents sold in an app, with a subscription, as a loving companion. Capitalism smells blood in the water. If I was a hedge fund manager witnessing the birth of a new market demographic with a lifelong addiction that possibly hooks harder than cigarettes, which is not federally regulated, and won’t be for the forseeable future; I would be foaming at the mouth with this opening in the market.

Flat earth. At the point we’re at now when it comes to personally accessible technology, anyone still believing it is 100% making a choice to do so, because it makes them feel better about things for some reason.

Man that chart has not aged well at all, just in the last few years. Also the artist’s motivations are pretty visible.

Most of these are hyper-exaggerations of what real people believe. Or purposeful misunderstandings of the underlying point. Take ‘Jet fuel can’t melt steel beams’ for example. Used since its inception as a meme to undermine 9/11 conspiracy theories.

Ultimately this is a tactic in itself. My conspiracy theory is that all the antisemetic theories, insane-sounding theories, theories that have no attachment to reality, rothschilds etc, are not perpetuated by ordinary people (though they unwittingly participate). They are perpetuated by the very parties the conspiracies are about. If someone hears that being a 9/11 truther is inextricably linked to antisemitism, and they think of themselves as a good person, they’ll shy away from ever looking into it any further than that; it’s a normal reaction if someonebis already stressed, busy, or otherwise precluded from more critical thought.

Edit: Yes some of these are totally insane, I am just referring to things that have roots firmly in reality.

Thanks for the new rabbit hole! :D

Right, I know this from experience. I was talking about the genes thing which I have been informed is Epigenetics (thanks Crankenstein!)

No. Statistically impossible means that according to statistics it canNOT occur. Extremely unlikely means that in a given percentage of cases, it CAN occur.

I had no idea it could change over time, that’s really cool. Makes me wonder what other genetic factors can change like that.

That’s always been my issue with them. I’ve been trying to expand my palate continuously, and this sounds wonderful. Definitely giving it a try.

For just a moment I thought it said ‘deported’. For just that moment, I felt elation like I haven’t known in years.

I’m still hopeful.