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		lionkor 47 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A teen was suicidal. ChatGPT was the friend he con... That's an edge case, this case is ChatGPT working as intended.

fzeindl 47 days ago [–]

Exactly. That might be something interesting to think about. Humans make mistakes. LLMs make mistakes.

Yet for humans we have built a society which prevents these mistakes except in edge cases.

Would humans make these mistakes as often as LLMs if there would be no consequences?

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