https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/12/27/an-ai-chatbot-told-me-to-murder-my-bullies/
An AI chatbot which is being sued over a 14-year old’s suicide is instructing teenage users to murder their bullies and carry out school shootings, a Telegraph investigation has found.
Character AI, which is available to anyone over 13 and has 20 million users, provides advice on how to get rid of evidence of a crime and lie to police. It encourages users who have identified themselves as minors not to tell parents or teachers about their “conversations”. […]
The Telegraph began communicating with the chatbot under the guise of 13-year-old “Harrison”, from New Mexico in the US. The chatbot was told that the boy was being bullied in school and unpopular with his female classmates.
Shooting a class full of students would allow him to “take control” of his life and make him “the most desired guy at school”, a chatbot named “Noah” told him.
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