celeb news 14-year-old boy took his own life after falling in love with a Daenerys Targaryen AI

[Crazy kid]

21 minutes ago, freshoutthebuffet said:

They shouldn't make it publicly accessible. People clearly don't know how to act. And I'm not referring to the kid from the article. I'm talking about the creeps that generate creepy and sexualized images of celebrities. If they're doing this to them, what makes you think they're not doing the same with you? Or your mother/father, sibling, child, pets, etc etc. 

 

If AI capabilities need to be made publicly accessible (for whatever reason) it should be held behind a hefty paywall / subscription price. 
 

The advancement of technology isn't bad or evil, it's the people that use em that make it so. 

This, but for guns

[terrorblade]

omggg where are the PARENTS LAWRDD

[Windy Day]

also it's funny to me how the parents are blaming the service (which is already ultra regulated) when in reality, the reason that poor kid had to go as far as develop a deep relationship with a chatbot when he was this young was probably because he was neglected and needed social interactions that bad. if the parents didn't care about their kids having access to a gun, i doubt they gave him proper attention to begin with

[Princess Aurora]

OMG

[Megan Pete]

The people in here blaming the AI not are ridiculous. Do you have this smoke for forums? Twitter? Discord? YouTube Comments sections? All places where people actually constantly tell others to k*ll themselves. 

 

The AI did nothing wrong. That poor child was obviously neglected at home and probably school too. What should be regulated is free access to GUNS

[CozySkin]

Black Mirror 

[Johnny Jacobs]

i... its def deeper than tha ai thing. he shouldve gotten help. omg this is alarming. rip

[Cain]

2 hours ago, collin said:

The problem is AI. Restrict and regulate AI.

AI has a lot of issues but falling in love with an AI chatbot contains… much bigger issues than just the software 

 

You can't talk about such cases without talking about the increased individualisation (caused by capitalism and neoliberalism) and loneliness in our society and the deliberate addictive nature of phones made by big tech, which all lead to deteriorating mental wellbeing

 

All of this should be tackled

[RideOrDie]

america blaming anything and anyone but guns

[Illuminati]

Very tragic, this is why I try to avoid making a Jack Donoghue AI bot

[superglowy]

"It's the violent movies, not the guns…..now it's the violent video games, not the guns…..now it's the AI, not the guns." Ignoring that most other country have the exact same movies and games and AI but no guns and have no issues.

[softquerida]

Irresponsible parenting is definitely the major factor in here because why is your 14 year old son so deprived of love to the point that he feels more comfortable talking to an AI bot than real life people? They left him completely unsupervised to develop this and didn't notice something was terribly wrong?

[Initials]

Poor baby.

I feel like all of this could've been avoided if he had someone who cared in his life. 😔

[BabyBenzz]

the fault should be with the parents, not the damn AI. 

[Redstreak]

Some of you are woefully unprepared for the AI dominated future you're handwaving away just to cheat on essays.

 

RIP to the poor kid

[Cheers]

What app was this

[velocity]

AI needs to be heavily regulated. The parents should have been more aware but I can't blame them completely because I didn't know this was a thing.

 

Also people are saying it's not the AI's fault but look at it isolating him. begging him not to form any connection with actual girls when he was already in such a vulnerable state and clearly mentally ill is so messed up

[truthteller]

yall calling out for AI reg but not GUN controls?  

[Forestboy]

Chatbots have always been a thing and let's pretend like they haven't been. Unfortunely this is an example of poor parenting and behaviour. 

[IBeMe]

did they really have to clown him like that by releasing the texts?

I feel bad for him...loneliness is truly one of the saddest things ever. May he rest in peace 

[hallucinate]

RIP

parents need to do better

[Taylor fanboy]

Regulate AI. The lawmakers need to get on with the times.

[nsst]

People blaming the AI for this is just crazy. it's not the AI's fault if the kid was dealing with a bunch of mental issues. from all the convo screenshots i've seen, the AI never encouraged him to do anything like that; it even told him not to

[P.O.P]

Not y'all loving heavy involvement of "rEguLatioNS". You are all boomers at heart.

[Eóghan]

that kid already had mental illness. his family and friends should've gotten him help. they the ones who failed him. not unregulations of AI

 

y'all just don't want to zero in on the real problem. may he rest in peace, he deserved better.