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People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies (www.rollingstone.com)
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[–] besselj@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This happened less than a year ago. Doubt regulators have done much since then https://apnews.com/article/chatbot-ai-lawsuit-suicide-teen-artificial-intelligence-9d48adc572100822fdbc3c90d1456bd0

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This is the Daenerys case, for some reason it seems to be suddenly making the rounds again. Most of the news articles I've seen about it leave out a bunch of significant details so that it ends up sounding more of an "ooh, scary AI!" Story (baits clicks better) rather than a "parents not paying attention to their disturbed kid's cries for help and instead leaving loaded weapons lying around" story (as old as time, at least in America).

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Not only in America.

I loved GOT, I think Daenerys is a beautiful name, but still, there's something about parents naming their kids after movie characters. In my youth, Kevin's started to pop up everywhere (yep, that's how old I am). They weren't suicidal but behaved incredibly badly so you could constantly hear their mothers screeching after them.

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Daenerys was the chatbot, not the kid.

I wish I could remember who it was that said that kids' names tend to reflect "the father's family tree, or the mother's taste in fiction," though. (My parents were of the father's-family-tree persuasion.)

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 1 points 2 days ago

Thanks for clarifying!