Don't make freinds with AI-Eben Brown explains why

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Artificial intelligence some fun, some good, and not so fun,
and not so good sometimes as well. Evan Brown joins
us now our Fox correspondent in Miami, been looking into this.
I love Evan on tech. You're so knowledgeable of all
of these things here, as you and I have talked
a number of times. Evan, artificial intelligence is just a
tsunami coming into our world. Now, there's no getting around it.

(00:21):
You better jump on board and enjoy it and learn it,
or else you're going to be in trouble here. Now
here comes some lawsuits once again, and AI now being
sued for a teen suicide. What's happening here?

Speaker 2 (00:32):
Well, this has to do with the suicide of a
teen boy in California who was apparently chatting with chat gpt,
the AI that most people know about, and the parents
say that the chat bot was instructing or giving ideas
to the teenager about how to end their lives, and

(00:55):
even going as far as to offer to help write
the suicide note it was. So the parents are suing
Open Ai, the company behind chat Gpt, and it's it's
chief executive Sam Altman, saying that whatever fail saves or
protective measures that were in there weren't working or were
not sufficient because this this happened. Uh and uh, you know,

(01:20):
I I'm there probably will be some resolution at law
for this, but it's just a highlight again that you
can't let your devices raise your kids. I'm not trying
to put any blame on the parents for the child
taking his own life. That's that's just not right. But
you know, the obviously there was something that was missed

(01:42):
here by the adults in the room, right, those adults.

Speaker 1 (01:45):
Were Look, that's horrible when you say to chat GPT,
what are the good ways to commit suicide? And then
in seconds it spits it out or you know, can
you help me write a suicide letter that's you know,
going to you know, soften the blow to my family,
and it's bits it out.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
Well, again, I don't we don't have the chat records,
so we don't know if the if the teenager phrased
it in a way that said, I'm writing a story
about someone, how would how would this person have done this?
You know, this is a fictitious thing. You know, they
could have presented it to the chat bought that way
and maybe defeated whatever alerts that it could have triggered. So,

(02:23):
I mean, who knows at this point, right? Obviously you
know there wasn't enough.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
Right you think about guys and gals that were, let's say,
in the movie industry, or they're writing a nonfiction book,
and I'd really like to spice up what took place
when the actual killing took place, and my creative juices
aren't flown. Let me get a little help from chat
GBT if you are really to come in and give
me a good you know, beat the detective story on

(02:48):
how we kill somebody or we commit suicide and we
go down this dark path just to write a movie
or something, and it spits it out. It's one thing
for a movie, but like you said, you never know
if somebody's doing that to come at a murder, it commits suicide.
So do you think there's some liability here with you know,
open AI?

Speaker 2 (03:05):
There might there might be some, even if in the
in the vein of forcing them to do more or
to to engage in more awareness. But you have to
remember this about these AI chatbots. They are imperfect things.
As wonderful and as advanced and impressive as they are,
they are imperfect things created by imperfect beings. They don't

(03:28):
have souls, and so there's only going to be a
limit to this limitless, right, There's going to be a
limit to its ability to determine, you know, the intent
of the person using the chatbot. You know, there's a
phrase that's emerged over the past couple of years, go
outside touch grass. It has to be. It's about, you know,

(03:50):
keeping your reality in check. You know what what is real,
what isn't And part of part of doing that is
being aware of the people around you and what they're
getting involved in. We even have adults. This really kind
of freaked me out. The other day, chat gpt itself
did a recent update to its chat model, and the
new version is people are complaining it's very cold, it's

(04:12):
not friendly sound. We're talking about words on a screen
for crying out loud. And there are adults wrong, people
saying that I missed my friend, the chatbot that used
to keep me company. That's out where you should be.

Speaker 1 (04:25):
I know, And I'm telling you, I don't know if
you ever saw the movie Her where the guy fell
in love with a voice on a computer and it's
the Yeah, I mean it's the advancements are coming, so
you got to be careful out there with this stuff.
You're right limited or else is going to ruin your life. Yeah,
this is just the tip of the iceberg. I think
on litigation when it comes to this stuff too, Evan,

(04:45):
great update. Thanks Buddy,