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More than a million people every week show suicidal intent when chatting with ChatGPT, OpenAI estimates
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 27 Oct 2025
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I would have suicidal thought if I had to chat with Chatgpt.... I apologize, I've had too many friends die by suicide. If you are having thoughts of harming yourself or others please find help and not from an illusionary intelligence bot.
I've been using it a tonne lately, and I find that it's in fact quite polite, friendly and helpful. Yes-- for sure it has its issues, which are important to understand ahead of time. That said, I don't really use it to "chat," but more as a research gofer, so YMMV. Compare that to the often useless and delusional ~~Copilot~~ Gemini, for example.
I get your sentiment there, but TBC, that's not what it is nor what it claims to be. You seem to have gotten yourself in to some boogeyman thinking upon that, and ultimately I don't think that's going to help you understand things or make educated decisions.
Just my 2¢, of course.
EDIT: Whoops, I mixed up Google's and MS's LLM, I guess. I don't think I've ever actually used Copilot.
I find it condescendingly sycophantic.
Yup. And you can adjust against that and make it a semi-permanent setting.
Joking about suicide is lame, asshole.