alt Hacker News> We don't want destructive friends encouraging us to do bad things, but a real 'buddy', somebody who always has our best well-being in its interests?
GPUs are not people, and generated tokens can't have interest in a person's well-being. If you try to pretend otherwise, the results are not great. https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/us/openai-chatgpt-suicide-law...
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hardbass • today at 2:54 PM
I wish I didn't have to keep asking this question, but do you believe in souls?
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That's almost a year ago. One LLM year is like 10 human years. They're a bit like dogs in that regard...
I'm pretty sure you will be paid a large sum of money if you can make one of the frontier models urge you to commit suicide from normal interactions with it.