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Father sues Google, claiming Gemini chatbot drove son into fatal delusion (techcrunch.com)
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[–] 23 points 7 months ago (4 children)

I feel like his father should also slap himself unconscious for raising a fuckwit?

So, a chatbot grooms somebody into killing himself, and your response is... Blame his father?

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  • [+] -11 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    The father is suing the company who makes the wrong answer machine for the wrong answer machine spiraling his son to madness, but never protected his son from spiraling into madness by teaching critical thinking.

    Look I don't like it but to think Gemini (wrong answer machine) is completely to blame would be madness.

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Uh-huh. Do you have any evidence to back up your beliefs here, or are we just working from the presumption that the parents are always to blame

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    I think the important point here is that just because the father is doing Google doesn't necessarily mean that Google are at fault. People tend to feel that if an individual is suing a corporation for malfeasance the corporation is necessarily guilty. But reality doesn't always run like that.

    I can't see any reason that Google would want to encourage more suicide so I have to assume that it's just an unfortunate interaction of a mentally unsound mind and a product that frankly even its own creators don't understand. This is highly unfortunate but I'm not certain where the crime was.

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