Yep they knew. Heinous fucks. Please listen to my interview on @onwithkaraswisher.bsky.social with the mother of the 14 year old boy who did just this after being obviously and repeatedly manipulated by a chatbot (link below) - ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

karaswisher.bsky.social • 2 days ago

Yep they knew. Heinous fucks. Please listen to my interview on @onwithkaraswisher.bsky.social with the mother of the 14 year old boy who did just this after being obviously and repeatedly manipulated by a chatbot (link below)

Reposted from Maggie Harrison Dupré

NEW: Months before Google was accused in a lawsuit of facilitating the suicide of a teen user of the Google-tied chatbot startup CharacterAI, researchers at Google DeepMind warned in a paper that chatbots could target minors and manipulate vulnerable users into suicide.

futurism.com/google-suici...

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donnasteffy.bsky.social•2 days ago

Heinous fucks! Kara you will never know how much I needed someone to say that! I didn't know how much I needed someone to say that! I never cry! It just bubbled up and out! Google deepmind are indeed heinous fucks! Utterly... completely.... alert the media.... HEINOUS FUCKS!

radios2.bsky.social•2 days ago

Didn’t this poor kid find his parents gun lying around the house? Sure, the AI part is tragic but the gun is the bigger issue.

this-is-unserious.bsky.social•1 day ago

criminal negligence?

jlindig.bsky.social•2 days ago

I guess they ditched that “do no evil” silliness. 🙁

jospol.bsky.social•2 days ago

Disturbing that the Steve Urkel phase of ‘Did I do that?’ Of social media never progressed into the consequence phase.

jospol.bsky.social•2 days ago

Should Pichai resign? He seems like a broligarch intent on being part of the ‘gang’ at any means

angushsdcubd.bsky.social•2 days ago

google is fucking evil and has been for many many years. pre musk... I was thinking they were no 1 exist threat.... sadly now we can pick from about 5...

kroncronk.bsky.social•1 day ago

Motherfuckers

momasol.bsky.social•2 days ago

Holy shit!

nhcrafts.bsky.social•2 days ago

That’s despicable! The most brazen Mafia Mob ever assembled parades around like the untouchables they are right now, spewing lies. Crushing lives and souls of the living. Unimaginable, unknown sorrows, everywhere. Dissent met with disappearance. Junta style, fuck the courts. 🇺🇸 ? Not mine.

rockymountaincat.bsky.social•2 days ago

As disturbing as it is to release a product with such potential for harm, it's more disturbing that the product's developers thought they were mature enough to feel they didn't need the "bureaucracy" that served a purpose: protecting both the company and its customers. Hope the lesson is expensive.

kimagogo.bsky.social•2 days ago

😡

declassifyuap.bsky.social•2 days ago

Science fiction has been warning us about AI since freakin’ Metropolis. Did we listen? No, no we didn’t.

rnkew.bsky.social•2 days ago

Disgusting pigs🤬

grungeboyfriend.bsky.social•2 days ago

This is why AI needs directives like 'protect human life' what are these tools even for if they don't have a basic moral framework?

harrybjackson.bsky.social•2 days ago

Really appreciate your reporting on this and that incredible interview a few months ago.

rkew.bsky.social•1 day ago

All we have to do is to look at all the crazy trends that get shared: "cutting" how to's, anorexia and bulimia instructions, eating Tide Pods... even "adults" get into the ice water thing -look what they do to coaches after a football game!? Where are the red-lines?

mcdonaldbucket.bsky.social•2 days ago

Krasnov should be using that for advice

janetgio.bsky.social•2 days ago

This is no different than the Dupont Teflon issue, they too had their own research and they knew the damage they were doing but they didn't care because they were making money, this is the America that we live in now thanks to Trump

true-bird.bsky.social•1 day ago

📌

thisgrayarea.bsky.social•1 day ago

"New technology is not good or evil in and of itself. It's all about how people choose to use it." Whether it becomes a tool of evil or an instrument for good is mostly determined by the integrity&soul print alignments of those who create the technology and their extreme ownership of the aftermath.

thisgrayarea.bsky.social•1 day ago

This is a profoundly important human issue. I gathered from your "Burn Book" that you believe in technology's potential to do good, but you dont allow yourself to be led by blind faith that places trust in humans to do the right thing, when we all know a man's heart is easily corrupted by a gift

marianemmy.bsky.social•2 days ago

The new regime is finding many ways to kill us off.

sbpnw.bsky.social•2 days ago

Hmmm. Liability much?

marycateismary.bsky.social•2 days ago

This is always the way. Sacklers knew about oxy. Tobacco companies knew about cancer risks. Oil companies knew about climate issues.

They all knew yet the almighty $$$ reigns supreme.

gsproffit.bsky.social•2 days ago

I hope State Attorneys General will sue the absolute fuck out of Alphabet!

publius613.bsky.social•2 days ago

Those assholes in Silicon Valley will start calling it Techno-Darwinism

karaswisher.bsky.social•2 days ago

Must listen https://open.spotify.com/episode/3mISwsfx1DvSlEW9h80Cfh

captconvolvuli.bsky.social•1 day ago

Dangerous "friends" for impressionable minds. Another torment for us 'to get used to'.

imchuckmiller.bsky.social•1 day ago

It’s tough listen, good interview. Any updates?

jbenlevi.bsky.social•2 days ago

You and Scott have the best stuff in Podlandia.
I never miss a show. I crave it.

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toddboekelheide.bsky.social•2 days ago

Devastating.

scoobydoo9900.bsky.social•2 days ago

Wow you actually had a podcast where you talked about something other than Elon Musk! Amazing

elonmuskisyourdad.bsky.social•9 hours ago

I applaud Kara for taking a momentary break from being an Elon stalker to discuss.... other things for a change. Brava!

mt-dangler.bsky.social•8 hours ago

It ain’t gonna happen my man, turn your pump off

justgimmesometruth.bsky.social•2 days ago

Btw the US is doing autogenocide at Putin’s direction and executed by Dictator Trump his Trojan horse in the US.

marcynorsk.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yes. Genocide with plausible deniability. The Covid pandemic was round one. The destruction of Medicaid and all safety nets is next along with so much more.

marcynorsk.bsky.social•1 day ago

Musk is this guy and Doge are his droogs.

justgimmesometruth.bsky.social•1 day ago

During Jan 2020 Trump demand daily tests from lab corp while publicly calling Covid a hoax in public. A fact

marcynorsk.bsky.social•1 day ago

Not surprised. And while deliberately withholding help from my state for political purposes. He's a sadistic psychopath.

kieranhannon.bsky.social•2 days ago

💔

heatherthewhatever.bsky.social•2 days ago

No one seems to have figured out?

The group of young men who've been working on & socializing AI the past 10 yrs? Are the same group of young men outed for xenophobia and racism (Doge & assoc.)

RACISTS MADE IT.

blhnyc.bsky.social•2 days ago

Well there goes another night of sleep.

heatherthewhatever.bsky.social•2 days ago

Felt that way when I figured it out. Doge are the interns and engineers from Musk's AI projects and various others.

blhnyc.bsky.social•2 days ago

So women-hating racists.

schadenfreude666.bsky.social•1 day ago

facebook kills kids...

dardenne.bsky.social•2 days ago

So we’re just going to hope that technocrats suddenly grow a sense of conscience— after they have presided over the destruction of Democracy— and the isolation echo chambers of an entire generation of young voters.

Why not call for #Boycott Kara?

You stop short of it every single time.

reysjones.bsky.social•2 days ago

There's a few chat bots I'd like to wring necks if they had one. AI is not ready to roll out like they are.

worldtravelerall7.bsky.social•1 day ago

"Don't be evil." just further proof that💲t💩s ethics every time for these fuckers

on the plus side for them, they'll probably make a fortune off this future cyber-warfare weapon. 'don't be evil' what a joke
😮‍💨🕉️

rmdw1108.bsky.social•1 day ago

When will there be a podcast on “Careless People”?

kibbitz.bsky.social•2 days ago

This makes my soul hurt. I warn my daughter all the time but it's never enough.

lori55.bsky.social•2 days ago

This is evil personified! To target vulnerable children is sick. Where are the regulations? Oh, I forgot, that’s why they funded trump

sl25.bsky.social•2 days ago

In the end, AI is just a tool much like Excel or other software applications. So the tool's owner is responsible for the tool's actions. This AI tool is owned by Google and so they are liable. While Trump may squash US lawsuits, Europe/AUS/Canada won't.