A Deadly Love Affair with a Chatbot. Sewell Setzer was a happy child - before he fell in love with an AI chatbot and took his own life at 14.

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A Deadly Love Affair with a Chatbot. Sewell Setzer was a happy child - before he fell in love with an AI chatbot and took his own life at 14. - jlai.lu

Lemmy

Well this is terrifying. It really seems like there is little to no regulation protecting kids online these days.
That’s what parents are for.
Only to a certain extent. What can they do against so many changes in the tech world. Just look at whatsapp that just introduced AI in their chat. There is a point when tech giants should just be strictly regulated for the interest of the public
Or how about parents regulate their children, so that we don't have government nannies telling full grown adults what they're allowed to do with chatbots?
It’s not about regulating what full grown adults do with chat bots it’s about regulating what corporations do with their products.

What can they do against so many changes in the tech world.

Be involved in their kids’ lives? Tech isn’t the problem here, any more than it could have been TV, drugs, rock and roll, video games, D&D, or organized religion. Kids get into some dumb shit, just because it’s the hot new thing doesn’t make it any different.

Lol be involved in kids lives? 🤣 I will guess you’re not a parent but yes.

But I think you bring a very good point here about drugs, it’s not possible to shield your kid from everything even drugs. But the way things are going using a kid using drug may be less dangerous than a kid using the phone.

Especially because most people don’t encourage kids to use drugs, while is the opposite with phones