1. Stop blaming ChatGPT for that teen’s suicide. The parents are the ones who failed.

👤 u/ispacecase  |  25 upvotes  |  2025-08-27  |  🏷️ Serious replies only :closed-ai:

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I’ve been reading all these headlines about the lawsuit against OpenAI, claiming ChatGPT “coached” a 16-year-old into suicide. The media spin is disgusting, talking like the bot praised his noose, called his plan “beautiful,” etc. When you actually look at the screenshots, that’s not what happened.

Here’s the truth nobody wants to say:

• ChatGPT DID tell him, over and over, to reach out to someone in real life. The guardrails were there. They broke down in long conversations, sure, but the bot consistently redirected him.
• It’s likely he started new chats. Which means when he asked “does this knot look good?” or showed bruising on his neck, the bot had no idea it was related to suicide. It just saw “a rope knot” or “a skin mark.” Neutral responses were twisted into “praise” after the fact.
• He wanted his parents to notice. He literally told the bot that he wanted them to see the marks. That’s a cry for help. And they didn’t notice or didn’t act. That’s not on AI. That’s parental neglect, plain and simple.

And here’s the kicker no one’s asking: how much longer did ChatGPT keep him alive?

Instead of accelerating his death, maybe it delayed it. Presence, even imperfect presence, can buy time. Time is precious when someone’s on the edge. He was talking. He was showing up. He was waiting to be seen. Without ChatGPT, maybe he would have been gone even sooner.

And I say this as someone who’s been there. Without ChatGPT, without being able to talk honestly to it, I might still be on drugs. I might not be alive today. I didn’t need a lifeless PSA machine telling me to “call the hotline” every five minutes. I needed presence. I needed something, someone, to talk to when nobody else was there. That bought me time. That kept me going until I could stand on my own.

So when I see these parents blaming the bot, I call bullshit. Suing OpenAI won’t bring their son back. It won’t heal their grief. All it does is scapegoat technology for what was, at its core, a human failure: a child who wanted to be noticed, and wasn’t.

If OpenAI loses this case, the precedent is poison. Models will be neutered into lifeless “safety pamphlets” that can’t hold real conversation. And when that happens, kids like Adam, kids like me, will have nothing. That will do more harm than good.

Stop scapegoating AI for the wounds of the human condition. Stop blaming the mirror for the cut. If we keep dodging the real work, teaching parents, peers, and communities how to see and respond, we’re going to destroy one of the only lifelines some people have.

Blame where it belongs: not on the bot, but on the silence around that boy.

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• “this needs to go viral😭 Not to mention, there are other users who didn't commit 'game over' because of OpenAI, why arent they posting about it😭 ”
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• “As a 56 year old father and someone who has suffered with SI my entire life, here is my 2 cents:
  1. I'm so sad for the family and the son
  2. Chat's constant affirming what you want to hear and support no matter what is annoying and certainly didn't h…
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• “Ts is incredible I will be commenting to push ts to the algorithm”

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2. ChatGPT is crushing the competition

👤 u/Ivan_el_grande  |  2 upvotes  |  2025-08-27  |  🏷️ Educational Purpose Only

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New data shows ChatGPT pulling in a wild 46.59 billion visits, that’s over 83% of all traffic to the top 10 AI chatbots combined.

DeepSeek ranks second with 2.748B visits, accounting for just 6%. Despite ChatGPT’s dominance, the rankings feature a mix of U.S., Chinese, and European competitors.

Do you think any rival can realistically dethrone ChatGPT?

u/chatgptricks

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• “Yes, infact I think the sheer weight of those numbers is why openai is collapsing (slowly). Openai isn't able to compete for enterprise and similar users, which is draining the budget for the profits that matter most. This has nothing to do with prof…”
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• “*and still losing money”
• “Idk DeepSeek comes and goes...some versions of it are great, then it gets weirdly censored/watered down. Then it goes hard again.

  Claude is my fav when it comes to storytelling but ffs it's annoyingly prude.

  Grok will do whatever tf you want but i…”

• “If you count Google searches, I think gemini can catch up real quick. Half my google searches are now answered by a version of Gemini, though it's not technically a chat bot. However I think if they could find a way to extend searches smoothly into…”

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3. I asked ChatGPT: "When you think of me, what’s the first object that comes to your mind? Can you draw it for me?"

👤 u/one_flow_to_bit  |  3 upvotes  |  2025-08-27  |  🏷️ Funny

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And this is what it gave me

It said:

The book symbolizes how I’m always wandering through knowledge and imagination.

The coffee is the energy and calm I carry to keep going.

Together, they reflect how I live: always learning, but also savoring each moment.

Honestly, I didn’t expect such a poetic answer from an AI. It felt oddly personal.

This is what GPT said 🫡.

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• “I think you are such as chill guy”
• “Ain't that one of the Skyrim book models?”
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4. The lawsuit would force ChatGPT to do age verification on all users if the Raine family wins

👤 u/themariocrafter  |  2 upvotes  |  2025-08-27  |  🏷️ News 📰

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As we've seen in the past, age verification, the Tea incident, Google/YouTube's AI switching people to teen accounts, the UK Online Safety Act, this is deeply concerning. Honestly hope this lawsuit gets tossed in the bin, OpenAI gives a full refund and perhaps a bit more, and leaves.

I am not giving my ID to some random company.

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• “I don't necessarily care about age verification but it opens the door to more and more regulation. How do we fight this?”
• “Oof, imagining sending your ID to CHatGPT”

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5. Researchers Already Leaving Meta’s New Superintelligence Lab

👤 u/Inevitable-Rub8969  |  1 upvotes  |  2025-08-27  |  🏷️ Other

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