I can barely read this NYT piece about the generative AI chatbot that helped a teen kill himself because it’s so upsetting. Content warning doesn’t begin to cover it.
Without ChatGPT, Adam would still be with them, his parents think, full of angst and in need of help, but still here.
This isn’t your typical “new tech is scary” story. God knows I’ve read enough of those since I started in tech writing in the 1990s. There is something uniquely dangerous about generative AI chatbots, and the industry knows it.