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Can A.I. be blamed for a teen's suicide?

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Re: Can A.I. be blamed for a teen's suicide?

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not the AI of course, not even the systems developers behind the gpus, cuda, all that stuff. its the "pretend shrink" sort of crap, you know the type, get yourself a bot and slap a webpage in front of it. "here pal, let me be your psychologist and help you with your suicide!" "No? how about some fake music using stolen riffs!" "ok ok, how about kiddy porn?"

Re: Can A.I. be blamed for a teen's suicide?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

My wife is an educator. Asking teachers to switch to paper assignments might not be feasible depending on the curriculum they're being asked to teach against, number of students in the classroom (I'm going to assume that your kid is in a public school; class sizes have been increasing due to funding cuts), books that they're using, etc. For example: one of the classes my wife taught years ago was designed around an o…

Oh, I guess it's no one's fault then and nothing can be done. Thank you for explaining that bit in case OP hadn't gotten the full coverage of excuses from their local bureaucracy. In reality, giving kids Doubleclick Chromebooks with unsupervised general Internet access is gross negligence on the part of the school. Pacifying kids with digital dopamine is likely why class sizes have been able to continue growing. So i…

I didn't say it's no-ones fault.

Public schools have been under attack for decades; curriculums that can only be executed with the help of laptops is a side effect.

What I was trying to say was that the situation at hand is very likely not the teachers fault; they probably agree with you!

If you want more outrage, spend 15 minutes on /r/Teachers.

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