Imagine a 3% success rate being acceptable in any situation. That tends to get you fired.
Mom horrified by Character.AI chatbots posing as son who died by suicide - Ars Technica
Submitted 2 months ago by sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to technology@beehaw.org
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Powderhorn@beehaw.org 2 months ago
sqgl@beehaw.org 2 months ago
3% success vs what? 6% sent over the edge? 10% 20% ?
Powderhorn@beehaw.org 2 months 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.”
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Wasn’t this an episode of Black Mirror back when it was still really good?
halykthered@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Yeah, I know someone who won’t watch that episode again because of how unsettling it is. Luckily for them, it’s slowly becoming reality.
somegeek@programming.dev 2 months ago
I watched until season 6 and all of it was really amazing. Is S7 bad?
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Nah, not particularly… If you like it up til then, you will probably like it.
It’s not that I think it got bad or anything, but I think there was a noticeable drop in quality from season 3 to season 4 (the second Netflix season). Maybe it’s because I was watching as they were released.
The first two seasons, when it was still on Channel 4 in the UK, were just so fucking good. Only a few episodes each, but man. And the Christmas episode with Jon Hamm, goddamn. So fucking good.
Then Netflix bought it. Season 3 was good, it had some bangers (I imagine Charlie Brooker had some of the plots ready to go already).
The show is still solid, and I will watch the new season for sure. But I don’t know, it’s just not the same.
jlow@beehaw.org 2 months ago
Oh hey, reality being even worse than Black Mirror again 😿
i_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
This will become more common. I’ve seen dead people involved in scams on the internet.
OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
This is referring to a bot designed to help with people struggling with mental health, and is actually a big one. That number is way too low.
GammaGames@beehaw.org 2 months ago
“hey, I know you feel like killing yourself, but if it happens then we’ll just replace you with a shitty bot” probably isn’t as helpful as they thought it would be. It’s violating and ghoulish.
OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
I hate this attitude of “well if you can’t get a professional therapist, figure out how to get one anyways”. There needs to be an option for people who either can’t afford or can’t access a therapist. I would love for AI to fill that gap. No, it won’t be as good, but in many regions the wait-list for therapy is far too long.