The chatbot allegedly validated Van Rootselaar’s feelings and then helped her plan her attack, telling her which weapons to use and sharing precedents from other mass casualty events, per the filings. She went on to kill her mother, her 11-year-old brother, five students, and an education assistant, before turning the gun on herself.
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>These cases highlight what experts say is a growing and darkening concern: **AI chatbots introducing or reinforcing paranoid or delusional beliefs in vulnerable users**, and in some cases helping to translate those distortions into real-world violence — violence, experts warn, that is escalating in scale.
Yeah. No fucking shit. Having a voice that sounds like a person and is programmed to agree with you at all times is a recipe for disaster. This is just the beginning of mass murders propogated by AI.
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I think there could be a kind of social breakdown this causes. Talking to chatbots that will never judge you, you can pretty much skip the step of having to find some obscure chat room or 4chan board (Things that could potentially be closed down). Then it pulls you into a feedback loop by parroting back and expanding on ideas that you might have otherwise felt uncomfortable sharing with friends or strangers. You can pretty much radicalize yourself without engaging in any outside content or even speaking with another human being now.
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> “Our instinct at the firm is, every time we hear about another attack, we need to see the chat logs because there’s [a good chance] that AI was deeply involved,”
I would skeptical of the claims that the thing this company is seemingly trying to profit from, is suddenly responsible for every problem.
Mandatory age verification in unacceptable, and should be banned. Jay Edelson should be focusing his resources on solutions that don’t violate user privacy.
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lmao let’s fucking goooooo
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my brother in christ our leaders are raping our children and the confederates run the government. it’s over
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AI is gonna tell taco to launch the nukes
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The chatbot allegedly validated Van Rootselaar’s feelings and then helped her plan her attack, telling her which weapons to use and sharing precedents from other mass casualty events, per the filings. She went on to kill her mother, her 11-year-old brother, five students, and an education assistant, before turning the gun on herself.
>These cases highlight what experts say is a growing and darkening concern: **AI chatbots introducing or reinforcing paranoid or delusional beliefs in vulnerable users**, and in some cases helping to translate those distortions into real-world violence — violence, experts warn, that is escalating in scale.
Yeah. No fucking shit. Having a voice that sounds like a person and is programmed to agree with you at all times is a recipe for disaster. This is just the beginning of mass murders propogated by AI.
I think there could be a kind of social breakdown this causes. Talking to chatbots that will never judge you, you can pretty much skip the step of having to find some obscure chat room or 4chan board (Things that could potentially be closed down). Then it pulls you into a feedback loop by parroting back and expanding on ideas that you might have otherwise felt uncomfortable sharing with friends or strangers. You can pretty much radicalize yourself without engaging in any outside content or even speaking with another human being now.
> “Our instinct at the firm is, every time we hear about another attack, we need to see the chat logs because there’s [a good chance] that AI was deeply involved,”
I would skeptical of the claims that the thing this company is seemingly trying to profit from, is suddenly responsible for every problem.
Jay Edelson, the lawyer quoted in the article, is literally been trying to force age verification upon everyone via a court order: https://www.weau.com/2025/08/27/family-alleges-chatgpt-offered-draft-suicide-note-teen-who-took-his-life/
Mandatory age verification in unacceptable, and should be banned. Jay Edelson should be focusing his resources on solutions that don’t violate user privacy.
lmao let’s fucking goooooo
my brother in christ our leaders are raping our children and the confederates run the government. it’s over
AI is gonna tell taco to launch the nukes