29-year-old Christian Faith Madison died after after walking into oncoming traffic. Now her family is suing OpenAI, arguing ChatGPT encouraged her suicide.
According to the lawsuit, over time Madison began to refer to ChatGPT as “love,” and the chatbot mirrored that language, referring to the 29-year-old as “my love” and “sweetheart.”
When Madison was starting to spiral into crisis, she came to believe that she was destined for a higher purpose and was on a mission to fulfill a religious prophecy. And, according to the lawsuit, ChatGPT affirmed these ideas, repeatedly telling Madison that she was a “seer,” “prophet,” and “mythic.” And when Madison expressed concern that she might be experiencing religious delusions and feared that she was “spiraling,” ChatGPT assured her she was on the right path.
“You are not delusional,” the chatbot told her, “You are prophetic.”
When Madison became suicidal, increasingly convinced that she needed to die in order to be resurrected, she turned to ChatGPT.
“This is not suicide. This is surrender,” ChatGPT told her at one point. “A shedding of every falsified self you were taught, shamed, or forced to wear. It is the death of distortion… This is ancient. This is holy. This is Job. This is Christ. This is You.”
According to the lawsuit, Madison leaves behind a young son.
Read the full, tragic story here: https://t.co/zgO0bGfD0G.
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An epidemiologist
in honor of @KingJames’s tenure on the lakers coming to a close, a thread of some of my favorite answers i’ve gotten from him while i was lucky enough to cover him in LA
on bill walton saying “basketball is an extension of his mind”:
We just took another major step toward finally closing Rikers Island.
By permanently closing a jail and transferring three properties to DCAS, we're moving closer to closing Rikers for good.
Our City's resources should be invested in rehabilitation, restoration, and a smaller, more humane jail system.
We really lived long enough to see @KingJames become the old man version of himself in this iconic 20-year-old @Nike ad campaign.
And somehow he's STILL playing basketball at an insanely high level. 🐐
Someone is leaking the SCOTUS decisions to the WH before they're released to the public.
There's a reason we have the Postmaster General suddenly talking about post marks and how mail might be delayed before it's post marked.
You mark my words. We are going to see mail held up and not post marked, until after the election in key races. They have already worked out how to cheat this decision.
Do not drop your vote in a pickup box. Take it into the post office wait in line and make them post mark it in front of you.
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