SkyNet really is ... here?

[Kichwas]

"Skynet" has been here for about a decade. It's just a random set of memes instead of a hostile killer computer.

 

[Scribe]

Take the echo chamber of social media of 2018-2022, and add a boost of validation to your delusion and mental illness.

ChatGPT adds mental health guardrails after reports of bot feeding people’s delusions

ChatGPT users who converse with the bot for an extended amount of time will now receive reminders encouraging them to take a break

www.the-independent.com

And with that, I'm off to the gym. Remember to unplug and engage with reality folks!

 

[Theory of Games]

Well. I tried - and I'm done with this thread

 

[UngainlyTitan]

You know, if an AI apocalypse occurs it is most likely to be something odd and unexpected, like in Charlie Stross's Freya 'verse series. Where the humans discovered that AI only really got intelligent in bodies and the original template need a training period similar to educating a human and made sexbots.
The human race dies out due to lack of reproduction.

 

[Scribe]

To be clear, that link from yesterday is related to this one.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/26/tech/openai-chatgpt-teen-suicide-lawsuit?utm_source=business_ribbon

 

[gnarlygninja]

That seems like something you'd have wanted to include a while ago. Reading the chatlog in that link is revolting.

 

[Scribe]

That seems like something you'd have wanted to include a while ago. Reading the chatlog in that link is revolting.

Yeah by bad, multiple tabs yesterday going over the same story, that new link was just while I was checking if Nvidia had posted their numbers...

 

[gnarlygninja]

Oh, no, I meant I don't know why ChatGPT didn't have anything to stop it from enabling and actively encouraging suicidal ideation.
I don't really understand how a person can read it telling that kid to keep his thoughts a secret, so the space he killed himself would be the first place anyone saw him, and then defend these people. Absolutely disgusting, anti human behavior.