Openai Says Dead Teen Violated Tos When He Used Chatgpt to Plan Suicide

Like anyone reads those anyway, it’s just a way to protect companies

I'm not sure that focusing on this mudslinging towards OpenAI (or any other company, for that matter) will achieve anything. It didn't work in the past and it won't work in the future. The reality is that parents, guardians, teachers and society as a whole need to be held responsible(at least morally if not legally) in order to address the core issue of suicide and similar behaviors, such as murder.

Besides the obvious compromise in quality that companies would have to make to appease the 'karens' of society (not to mention the additional compliance and regulatory burden imposed on new companies), wouldn't it be simpler to just have users take a basic 'TOS test' when creating an account? Sure, it's inconvenient, but at least the company would be legally protected. The purpose is obviously not to protect companies, but to move the spotlight towards the real causal factors.

No matter how simple the TOS acceptance process becomes, people will still find a way to blame the product or company, ignoring the core issue of how someone got into a mental state where they use LLMs to cause self-harm. I don't see people suing rope manufacturing companies for facilitating suicide.

lol, that’s their defense? Good luck with that. I should join polymarket just so I can bet bigly that if this goes to trial they’ll lose. I’m sure their lawyers know that too though. Settlement inbound.

Just like how openAI violated hundreds of companies terms of service scraping everything they wanted? Why doesn't the legal system automatically and immediately track the history of someone claiming to use a law if they have followed it themselves?