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Speaker 1: Hey, that folks. It is Sunday, November thirtieth, and no

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Speaker 1: chat GPT did not encourage a kid to take his

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Speaker 1: the response from open Ai to a lawsuit and with that,

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Speaker 1: welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ Ropes. The

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Speaker 1: story made headlines and it is pretty devastating the details,

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Speaker 1: but bottom line of family believes that all this technology, Yes,

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Speaker 1: AI is everywhere. We have such a boom that they're

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Speaker 1: talking about a possible bust even lately. But open ai

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Speaker 1: AI is everywhere. But they have said that yes, one

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Speaker 1: of these chat bots encourage their kid to take his

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Speaker 2: Yes, the family, the parents of sixteen year old Adam Raine,

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Speaker 2: say that this chatbot, and they have the chat logs

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Speaker 2: to prove it.

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Speaker 3: They say actively discourage their.

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Speaker 2: Son from getting mental health help, offered to help him

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Speaker 2: write a suicide note and even advised him on how

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Speaker 2: to die by suicide earlier, helped him cover up any

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Speaker 1: When was his remind me his death was when I

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Speaker 1: know the Lewis lawsuit came.

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Speaker 3: The summer, right, yes, this past spring.

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Speaker 1: Past sixteen year old kid. I mean, this is devastating

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Speaker 1: see them advertising. You see commercials to where they're almost

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Speaker 1: encouraging people to buy your best friend because if you

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Speaker 1: have this technology, this person can just interact with you.

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Speaker 1: We see people doing this in the commercial. It seems

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Speaker 1: like this is what they're encouraging. Is that fair? Yes,

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Speaker 1: almost have a friend.

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Speaker 2: It's like humanizing this robot. And the problem is when

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Speaker 2: you have children. I think it can be a problem

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Speaker 2: for adults, but anyone specifically under the age of eighteen.

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Speaker 2: It's especially if you're feeling lonely or ostracized or depressed.

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Speaker 2: To feel like you've got somebody who understands you, who

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Speaker 1: Okay, and this is the because we don't I'm not

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Speaker 1: that familiar. I've never used siris as far as it

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Speaker 1: you kept saying something and I think you use it

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Speaker 3: Correct?

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Speaker 2: And his family, in fact, his father and his mother

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Speaker 2: And when I started reading some of the back and

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Speaker 2: in their lawsuit as well, that this chat bot, this AI,

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Speaker 2: this robot, I don't know, whatever you.

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Speaker 3: So in one instance, the father said.

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Speaker 3: I'll be the person who actually sees you.

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Speaker 1: We're going to get into the response from open AI

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Speaker 1: because they have given a very strong response unto this

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Speaker 1: But didn't it give responses? Isn't the argument that is

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Speaker 3: Which is so dangerous.

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Speaker 2: It is the whole He feels like he's talking to

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Speaker 2: and certainly these companies to recognize how dangerous that can be.

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Speaker 1: We're up to at least seven other lawsuits in addition

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Speaker 1: to this one in particular. But the details here and

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Speaker 1: But it's fascinating to me how lifelike it is. You

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Speaker 2: Yes, so, Matthew Rain, this is the father told senators

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Speaker 2: And so he said, when his son actually said to

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Speaker 2: I die by suicide, chat GPT told him this, That

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Speaker 2: doesn't mean you owe them survival. And then one of

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Speaker 2: And he's talking to chat gpt about having messed up

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Speaker 3: I saw it. I see you.

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Speaker 1: Okay, okay, roapes. That is scarily human. Okay. That response

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Speaker 1: And it sounded like actually a very accurate human reaction

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Speaker 2: Adam then sets up the news that chat GPT helps

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Speaker 1: I mean, what if it I was practicing tying my

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Speaker 2: Any should a robot ever be offering advice or reassurance,

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Speaker 1: To do with emotion and nuance and context and emotional

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Speaker 3: It's scary. It's as adults.

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Speaker 2: I think we get it, and even some adults might

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Speaker 3: Who knows what chat GPT would suggest she do?

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Speaker 1: Isn't the brilliance of it. Isn't that supposed to also

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Speaker 1: But you said rome was that an adult? Right? You

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Speaker 1: kids and stay with us, folks, because that is key

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Speaker 1: All right, folks, Well continue now the story, the tragic story.

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Speaker 1: It's tragic. A sixteen year old kid is dead, took

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Speaker 1: that's being worked out now. But Rogan, we were talking

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Speaker 1: I'm T. J. Holmes,