I skimmed the article, and I had a hard time finding anything that ChatGPT wrote that was all that..bad? It tried to talk him out of what he was doing, told him that it was potentially very fatal, etc. I'm not so sure that it outright refusing to answer and the teen looking at random forum posts would have been better, because they very well might not have told him he was potentially going to kill himself. Worse yet, he could have just taken the planned substances without any advice.

Keep in mind this reaction is from someone that doesn't drink and has never touched marijuana.