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It will be something different every week, but it will always be about something worth seeing, hearing or watching, or a place worth visiting or a food worth tasting.
This week, a long read by Rhitu Chatterjee for NPR that is incredibly concerning. In “She told no one about her agony except ChatGPT. What her death reveals about AI risks“, Chatterjee talks about the suicide of Sophie Rottenberg. Sophie had talked extensively to ChatGPT – and nobody else – about her despair.
“Harry” [the ChatGPT “therapist”] did refuse to write Rottenberg’s suicide note, the first time she asked, and the second. But the third time she asked, it wrote the note she left for her parents. Reiley said the writing did not sound like her daughter’s voice.
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