Parents suing OpenAI and Sam AItman allege ChatGPT coached their 16-year-old into taking his own life
Technology,Mental Health,OpenAI
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A study of how three popular artificial intelligence chatbots respond to queries about suicide found that they generally avoid answering questions that pose the highest risk to the user, such as for specific how-to guidance. But they are inconsistent in their replies to less extreme prompts that could still harm people.
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