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this post was submitted on 27 Aug 2025
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There's always more to the story than what a news article and lawsuit will give, so I think it's best to keep that in mind with this post.
I maintain that the parents should perhaps have been more perceptive and involved with this kid's life, and ensuring this kid felt safe to come to them in times of need. The article mentions that the kid was already seeing a therapist, so I think it's safe to say there were some signs.
However, holy absolute shit, the model fucked up bad here and it's practically mirroring a predator here, isolating this kid further from getting help. There absolutely needs to be hard coded safeguards in place to prevent this kind of ideation even beginning. I would consider it negligent that any safeguards they had failed outright in this scenario.
It's so agreeable. If a person expresses doubts or concerns about a therapist, ChatGPT is likely to tell them they are doing a great job identifying problematic people and encourage those feelings of mistrust.
They sycophancy is something that apparent a lot of people liked (I hate it) but being an unwavering cheerleader of the user is harmful when the user wants to do harmful things.
Small correction, the article doesn't say he was going to therapy. It says that his mother was a therapist, I had to reread that sentence twice:
The mother, social worker, and therapist aren't three different persons.