Comment on Mom horrified by Character.AI chatbots posing as son who died by suicide - Ars Technica

• Powderhorn@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I don’t much like that take. Ars commits excellent journalism.

  From the story:

  About 3 percent of students in the study had positive mental health outcomes, reporting that talking to the chatbot “halted their suicidal ideation.” But researchers also found “there are some cases where their use is either negligible or might actually contribute to suicidal ideation.”

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  • sqgl@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I don’t think they contacted the researchers and the linked study does not seem to give the answer (I spent a few minutes looking).

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    • Powderhorn@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I generally don’t go about doing research for free.

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      • sqgl@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Ars offers free articles while most publications have a paywall, so I imagine funding isn’t as generous as it would have been 30 years ago when such publications would have been in magazine format.

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  • sqgl@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I removed the insult.

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    • Powderhorn@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Thank you.

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