>"Without these conversations with the chatbot, my husband would still be here," the man's widow told La Libre. She and her late husband were both in their thirties, lived a comfortable life and had two young children.
>However, about two years ago, the first signs of trouble started to appear. The man became very eco-anxious and found refuge with ELIZA, the name given to a chatbot that uses OpenAI's ChatGPT technology, and is designed to generate human-like text and exchanges. After six weeks of intensive exchanges, he took his own life.
I'd like to see the chat logs between the two. In a matter of 6 weeks, he went from eco-anxious to taking his own life... and some how thinking it was rational to sacrifice himself so an AI would save humanity?
I would love to see what influences/propaganda he encountered that so drastically altered his perception of reality.
Vallyth t1_je0mbl8 wrote
Reply to comment by outsidetheparty in Belgian man dies by suicide following exchanges with ChatGPT by section43
So utterly bizarre.
>"Without these conversations with the chatbot, my husband would still be here," the man's widow told La Libre. She and her late husband were both in their thirties, lived a comfortable life and had two young children.
>However, about two years ago, the first signs of trouble started to appear. The man became very eco-anxious and found refuge with ELIZA, the name given to a chatbot that uses OpenAI's ChatGPT technology, and is designed to generate human-like text and exchanges. After six weeks of intensive exchanges, he took his own life.
I'd like to see the chat logs between the two. In a matter of 6 weeks, he went from eco-anxious to taking his own life... and some how thinking it was rational to sacrifice himself so an AI would save humanity?
I would love to see what influences/propaganda he encountered that so drastically altered his perception of reality.