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A Deadly Love Affair with a Chatbot ∣ Sewell Setzer was a happy child - before he fell in love with Google's AI chatbot and took his own life at 14. (www.spiegel.de)

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[–] carl_dungeon@lemmy.world 53 points 1 day ago

this headline is disingenuous. There are so many other things going on here:

step dad and 2 much younger siblings. This kid was probably stressed out with new younger half sibs needing a lot of attention
gun without a lock stored with ammo in an accessible place
florida
Christian prep school. Those kids either believe anything is real or are so hopelessly depressed they get into drugs
parents are both lawyers. Talk about a high stress time consuming job that probably leaves little time for the three kids

But nah, it was just a chat bot that made a totally normal kid with no other risk factors off himself. They’re probably dying by the thousand right now right?