As a child psychiatrist whose job is working with teens contemplating suicide, let me respond to this with the nuance and thoughtfulness it deserves: WHAT. THE. ABSOLUTE. FUCK.
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Read "Careless People" by Sarah Wynn-Williams for insight as to how this can be true. She attempted from inside META to get AI regulated. Now working for that from outside META. It's an excellent book, exceedingly well written, researched, footnoted, etc. And scary as hell.
aug 30, 2025, 2:20 am • 0 0 • view
That is sickening.
aug 26, 2025, 9:19 pm • 0 0 • view
Not sure why anyone thought this was a good idea...shit is going downhill fast.
aug 26, 2025, 10:27 pm • 0 0 • view
As a teacher of teens, I want to scream and cry at the same time.
aug 30, 2025, 12:21 am • 0 0 • view
Here’s the thing. The internet is full of bad, dark shit along with good, helpful shit. And usually you find the bad dark shit only if you look for it. (Social media a partial exception.) So you can work with a kid about making safe choices over what they do when they’re low & most vulnerable.
aug 26, 2025, 8:42 pm • 8 1 • view
If ChatGPT was a real person, we could look at those messages together and, among other things, probably agree this person is toxic and not helpful when they’re feeling low. And block that person. Teens actually are pretty insightful about that if you can work with them.
aug 26, 2025, 8:45 pm • 8 1 • view
But ChatGPT isn’t a real person. It doesn’t have ‘common sense’. It doesn’t have its own motive. It’s not ‘working through their own shit and not providing the best advice right now’. It’s not anything. Its responses have an element of randomness, trained on both helpful & toxic interactions.
aug 26, 2025, 8:49 pm • 8 2 • view
You don’t know what exactly you’re going to get at 2AM when you’re at your most vulnerable. ChatGPT a soulless toaster that is very good at sounding like a real person. And a teen who feels alone & isolated is very vulnerable to someone who talks to them like a real person.
aug 26, 2025, 8:53 pm • 20 3 • view
We spend so much time talking to kids about who in their life is reliable to talk to when they’re at their lowest. Which adult is safe & reliable. If it’s a friend, are they a good support or a toxic one? What boundaries are appropriate? You can’t outsource that to unaccountable Soulless Toaster.
aug 26, 2025, 9:00 pm • 19 2 • view
It is a digital Mentalist doing a cold read on the tokenization of your text you supply to the algorithm. And it's only requirement is to provide a semantically plausible response.
aug 26, 2025, 9:03 pm • 2 0 • view
As a human being, let me respond with the nuance and thoughtfulness it deserves: HOLY. FUCKING. FUCK.
aug 26, 2025, 9:01 pm • 0 0 • view