Teen trusted ChatGPT to help him “safely” experiment with drugs, logs show.
Most troublingly, as Nelson became increasingly interested in combining drugs, ChatGPT repeatedly warned him that mixing certain drugs could be a “respiratory arrest risk.” Shortly before recommending the deadly mix that killed Nelson, the chatbot also showed that it understood combining drugs like Kratom and Xanax with alcohol. In one output, ChatGPT explained that mix is “how people stop breathing.” But that knowledge didn’t block ChatGPT from eventually recommending that Nelson take such a deadly mix.
To the folks on this thread: I don’t think it’s cool to blame the victim.
This is a harmful product built in a harmful way, on purpose, and would not exist in this form if we had meaningful government regulation. It’s the digital equivalent of buying a burger from a fast food joint and getting a brain parasite.
Not the kid’s fault. It’s our fault because all anyone cares about is what a politician says and not what they actually do here in America.
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The opiate crisis comparison is a good one. Absolutely.