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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 don't see anything in here to support saying ChatGPT is exacerbating anything.
Right? The reason people are opening up to it is that you can't open up to a human about this.
I'm agree with you, today is more easy to open yourself to an AI that basically is a YES man, unfotunatelly that is the main problem from my point of view, how we expect every of our ideas should be accepted without any difficulty, in fact, this could mean a lack of essential hummanity.
Exactly. It’s like concluding that therapists are exacerbating suicidal ideation, psychosis, or mania just because their patients talk about those things during sessions. ChatGPT has 800 million weekly users - of course some of them are going to bring up topics like that.
It’s fine to be skeptical about the long-term effects of chatbots on mental health, but it’s just as unhealthy to be so strongly anti-anything that one throws critical thinking out the window and accept anything that merely feels like it supports what they already want believe as further evidence that it must be so.
And yet the article is basically all upvotes.
As of late, Lemmy has been feeling way too much like Reddit to me, where clickbait trends hard as long as it affirms the environment.
I’ve even pointed this out once, and had OP basically respond with “I don’t care if it’s misinformation. I agree with the sentiment.” And mods did nothing.
That’s called disinformation.
Not that information hygiene is a priority here :(
Yeah, comments often “correct” that, but that doesn’t stop the extra order of magnitude of exposure the original post gets.
As much as the Twitter format sucks, Lemmy could really use a similar “community note” blurb right below headlines.
A Teen Was Suicidal. ChatGPT Was the Friend He Confided In. | New York Times
/>dude wants to end it
/>Trys to figure out the most humane way
/>PlEaSe ReAcH oUt
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I can't wait until humans have a right to die.