Background: this article. TL;DR: A man who talked with a chatbot about climate change for weeks was recommended by it to commit suicide. This story got into several Belgian newspapers, but IIRC never made it to the state media, somewhat to my surprise. The article for which this is a...
Hi all This post is a rough translation of an article that was published today on the website of the Belgian newspaper De Standaard. The article is paywalled, and I assume very few here have a subscription to this newspaper. I tried 12 foot ladder, but it didn't work on...
Background: this article. TL;DR: A man who talked with a chatbot about climate change for weeks was recommended by it to commit suicide.
This story got into several Belgian newspapers, but IIRC never made it to the state media, somewhat to my surprise. The article for which this is a linkpost is an explanation on the attribution of the man's suicide to the AI. It is written by Tim Verheyden, expert at the VRT (regional news) for the influence of social media and technology on society. This time, I just ran the article through DeepL. My own edits for context are between [square brackets]
... (read 1138 more words →)It was in the Walloon newspaper La Libre Belgique that
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This post is a rough translation of an article that was published today on the website of the Belgian newspaper De Standaard. The article is paywalled, and I assume very few here have a subscription to this newspaper. I tried 12 foot ladder, but it didn't work on this site either. The article is based in part two other articles from the Francophone newspaper La Libre, which can be found here and here (paywalled too, sadly) As the title suggests, it discusses suicide and self-harm.
... (read 708 more words →)A Belgian, a father of a young family, has ended his own life after long conversations with a chatbot writes La Libre. De Standaard tried the same
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