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So she already was deeply religious and LLM was just larping with her.
Its the old 4o model which was indeed incredibly larpy but this is clearly going around any safety systems that should detect obvious suicide chats like this.
Hard to believe that people actually fall for this but these are already extremely gullible people who already believe in a magic pie in the sky. Can't say I have much sympathy but I do feel empathy for people being surrounded in such poor cult-driven environment, the AI tool included.
Honestly the correct safety here would be to prevent llms from engaging with religion outside of philosophical context at all. But we all see why they can't do it right?
I mean, if you did the sane thing. Went along with everything an insane person said and drove them to suicide. And everything was documented.
Would you go to jail? I’d say yes you would
Would you do if your book drove someone insane? What about something more interactive like a video game? See how it's not so binary now?
llm isnt a book. its something completely new and comparing it to things like that just isnt correct. book cant adapt to the reader.