Ah, I see, you are saying the parents are the victim here? My bad, I thought you were saying the boy was the victim.

Nope, I said “my bet is”, I don’t know if that’s indeed the case. Regardless, the parents ARE responsible for his use of the chatbot.

No. I can’t form an opinion without the full chat content, but you all seem to be painting it like “one day a happy little boy enters the internet and is gaslighted into killing himself by a computer”, while the article says he had been struggling with suicidal thoughts for many years, had been changing his medication on his own, and spent most of his time on forums where people talked about suicide. On the chatbot the boy ignored disclaimers, terms, and over a hundred warnings when talking about suicide until he pretended it was all fictional to get the bot to play along. The boy might have been a victim of several things, but not a victim of a chatbot - how many disclaimers and terms and warnings one has to put on their product, and does it even matter if the other party is set to ignore them? His self-medication might have played a big factor in his mental state, but no one seems to want to blame the pharmaceutical company, because somehow in this case you all seem to agree he did ignore terms and warnings, nor blame the rope manufacturer for supplying the tool because you seem to agree it was a misuse of their product… and judging by how quickly parents looked for a scapegoat instead of having a hard look at themselves, even knowing everything that was going on, and ignoring that if you are minor you need parents supervision to use the chatbot, my bet is on clueless shitty parents.

I’ve seen both, and 2001 is beautiful and has very impressive practical effects, looks way better than the moon landing.

awesome

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Do you use language tags in your comments and have language set in your profile?
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2001: A Space Odyssey is the reason they say it could be faked.

Yeah, because a teacher is a sentient being with volition and not a tool under your control following your commands. It’s going to be hard to rule the tool deliberately helped him in planning it, especially after he spent a lot of time trying to break the tool to work in his favor (at least, it’s what is suggested in the article, and that source doesn’t have the full content of the chat, just the part that could be used for their case).
I guess more mandatory age verification are coming because parents can’t be responsible for what their kids do with the devices they give them.

I think that primarily third-party cookies are the most problematic thing when browsing the web, they use that crap to track you across sites and use it for ad targeting and “dynamic pricing”. Yeah, uBlock Origin will deal with most of it, but Google/Amazon/Meta/X are very aggressive, so I’d consider using different browsers for different activities, and having a more secure browser if you are dealing directly with Facebook and Google accs, something like Mullvad if you can get used to the default screen letterboxing. This, with the cookie purging, will help you avoid theirs and others’ cross-site tracking - just remember that not saving cookies means you are going to unlog from the sites every time you close the browser.
My main browser for daily, relaxed stuff is LibreWolf. I set cookie exceptions for sites I want to stay logged (like Lemmy). Some stuff doesn’t work correctly on LibreWolf because of some stuff it purged from FireFox, so you can go and do some manual configuration to harden regular Firefox and use for streaming and such, can also use it with Chameleon addon to give you a different signature from when you are using the other browsers. You can also change your VPN location when you are using each browser, so one more thing to make you look like a different user for each and make it less likely to have your different activities linked together.
If you are more tech-savvy, try ungoogled-chromium, but it requires a lot of manual setup.

Well, if that’s not part of him requesting ChatGPT to role-play, that’s fucked up.

ChatGPT warned Raine “more than 100 times” to seek help, but the teen “repeatedly expressed frustration with ChatGPT’s guardrails and its repeated efforts to direct him to reach out to loved ones, trusted persons, and crisis resources.”

Circumventing safety guardrails, Raine told ChatGPT that “his inquiries about self-harm were for fictional or academic purposes,”

lol hilarious

I’m not a native speaker, so sometimes I use AI to grammar check me to make sure I’m not talking nonsense, and just the other day I wanted to make a joke about waterboarding and asked AI to check it, it said it couldn’t do it because it involved torture, then I said it was for a fictional work and it did check - basically what the boy did.
Honestly, the whole thing reads like shitty parents are trying to find someone else to blame.

Yep, I saw a comment once like “GrapheneOS saves lives in countries under heavy censorship” as a tool for activists and such… but, really, do you know how accessible a phone that supports GrapheneOS is in such countries? I’m from Brazil, and among third world countries we are one of the most developed, but it’s about 8x as hard for us to get a Pixel phone compared to the USA (about double the price and about four times lower wages), and for really censored places it would be even harder!

What a stupid dumbass misleading title

That’s quite interesting, did you have other sort of compulsory ID before the national one? Like, what did you use to register to stuff, like enrolling in school or college, opening a bank account or getting a retirement plan, etc.

In my country we have both the state and national ID. I guess very long ago you could use your state ID to register to stuff, but as they pushed for more standardization everything started to require your national ID instead, and your state ID card was more a proof that you are who you claim to be (like, you have to collect a parcel somewhere and show it belongs to you, or if you are stopped by the police you can show your state ID)… but usually people just use the driver’s license because it has both ID numbers and your picture, so it’s a valid document for everything.

Mortal Kombat Shaolin Monks

I never had a PS2, I was the friend over :)

I love The Warriors, but my favorite PS2 games were the Tekken, Soulcalibur, and Tony Hawk games… wait, are they considered multiplayer or just versus?
Tony Hawk has cooperative modes though.