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OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly

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Re: OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly

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Post by xedrac »

btilly wrote: post #59
mgh2 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you sure ChatGPT is the solution? It just sounds like another "savior complex" sell spin from tech. 1. Social media -> connection 2. AGI -> erotica 3. Suicide -> prevention All these for engagement (i.e. addiction). It seems like the tech industry is the root cause itself trying to masquerade the problem by brainwashing the population. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45026886

I agree that the tech industry is the root cause of a lot of mental illness. But social media is a far bigger concern than AI. Unless, of course, you count the AI algorithms that TikTok uses to drive engagement, which in turn can cause social contagion...

AI is going to be more impactful than social media I'm afraid. But the two together just might be catastrophic for humanity.

Re: OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly

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Post by p5v »

unglaublich wrote: post #95
rich_sasha wrote: post #81

We've refined the human experience to extinction. In pursuit of that extra 0.1% of growth and extra 0.15 EPS, we've optimised and reoptimised until there isn't really space for being human. We're losing the ability to interact with each other socially, to flirt, now we're making life so stressful people literally want to kill themselves. All in a world (bubble) or abundance, where so much food is made, we literally d…

The romantic fallback plan of being a farmer or shepherd. I wonder, do farmers and shepherds also romantize about becoming programmers or accountants when they feel down?

They do. I’ve been teaching cross-career programming courses in the past, where most of my students had day jobs, some, involving hard physical work. They’d gladly swap all that for the opportunity to feed their families by writing code.

Just comes to show how the grass is always greener when you look on the other side.

That said, I also plan to retire up in the mountains soon, rather than keep feeding the machine.

Re: OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly

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Post by davesque »

Not surprising. Look and see what glorious examples of virtue we have among those at the top of today's world. I could get by with a little inspiration from that front, but there's none to be found. A rare few of us can persevere by sheer force of will, but most just find the status quo pretty depressing.

Re: OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly

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Post by CSMastermind »

Keep in mind this is in the context of them being sued for not protecting a teen who chatted about his suicidal thoughts. It's to their benefit to have a really high count here because it makes it seem less likely they can address the problem.

Re: OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly

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Post by drawfloat »

sammy2255 wrote: post #113
root_axis wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why did that make you want to kill yourself?

because I had hundreds of chats and image creations that I can no longer see. Can't even log in. My account was banned for "CSAM" even though I did no such thing, that's pretty insulting. Support doesn't reply, it's been over 4 months

I'd be careful going around advertising yourself publicly as banned for that, even if it's not true.

Re: OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly

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Post by android521 »

rich_sasha wrote: post #81

We've refined the human experience to extinction. In pursuit of that extra 0.1% of growth and extra 0.15 EPS, we've optimised and reoptimised until there isn't really space for being human. We're losing the ability to interact with each other socially, to flirt, now we're making life so stressful people literally want to kill themselves. All in a world (bubble) or abundance, where so much food is made, we literally d…

I like your plan B. But I would wait until robots are good enough to help with the hard work

Re: OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly

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Post by Szpadel »

windows_hater_7 wrote: post #130

I think there are a good number of false positives. I asked ChatGPT something about Git commits, and it told me “I was going through a lot” and needed to get some support.

i seen similar reports on social media, all of them had in common was presence of some keywords.

Re: OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly

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Post by diamond559 »

hyfgfh wrote: post #41
NathanKP wrote: post #3

> It is estimated that more than one in five U.S. adults live with a mental illness (59.3 million in 2022; 23.1% of the U.S. adult population). https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/mental-illness Most people don't understand just how mentally unwell the US population is. Of course there are one million talking to ChatGPT about suicide weekly. This is not a surprising stat at all. It's just a question of what to…

> OpenAI is trying to do something about it. Ha good one

They're doing something about it alright, they're monetizing their pain for shareholder gainz!

Re: OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly

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Post by dmos62 »

rich_sasha wrote: post #81

We've refined the human experience to extinction. In pursuit of that extra 0.1% of growth and extra 0.15 EPS, we've optimised and reoptimised until there isn't really space for being human. We're losing the ability to interact with each other socially, to flirt, now we're making life so stressful people literally want to kill themselves. All in a world (bubble) or abundance, where so much food is made, we literally d…

You can do something about it. Don't underestimate the power of an individual.

Re: OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly

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Post by zaptheimpaler »

golergka wrote: post #74
mgh2 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you sure ChatGPT is the solution? It just sounds like another "savior complex" sell spin from tech. 1. Social media -> connection 2. AGI -> erotica 3. Suicide -> prevention All these for engagement (i.e. addiction). It seems like the tech industry is the root cause itself trying to masquerade the problem by brainwashing the population. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45026886

ChatGPT/Claude can be absolutely brilliant in supportive, every day therapy, in my experience. BUT there are few caveats: I'm in therapy for a long time already (500+ hours), I don't trust it with important judgements or advice that goes counter to what I or my therapists think, and I also give Claude access to my diary with MCP, which makes it much better at figuring the context of what I'm talking about. Also, plea…

How do you connect your diary to an LLM? I've been struggling with getting an MCP for Evernote setup.
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