The "Dark side" of A.I.!

Fox's Eben Brown reports on two lawsuits:
1. OpenAI being sued for helping a child commit suicide and ROBLOX and Meta sued in Colorado for sexual exploitation

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
You know, we could probably do a story almost every
day on AI and technology, but you know, there's a
dark side to technology, as we're in this AI revolution
or AI boom. Open ai, which is the parent company
of chat gpt, was sued over a teen suicide. There
was another lawsuit in Colorado which alleges video game platform

(00:22):
rollblocks and the parent company of Facebook and Instagram Meta
that those two outfits played roles in sexual exploitation and
grooming technology and kids don't always go hand to hand
like we think they do. Let's get more now, Fox News,
Evan Brown, what's the story of it?

Speaker 2 (00:39):
Hi, Good morning. Yeah, So these are two different lawsuits
that are proceeding because of what you were just talking about.
One parents of a teen who took his own life
are suing chat GPT's creators, open Ai and the CEO
Sam Altman, saying that the chatbot encouraged and instructed their

(01:00):
son how to take his own life, including offering to
help write the suicide notes, while chat ept's creator open
Ay says are very sad for the situation that they
have stopgap measures to try to identify people who are
despondent and get them to help. But the parents say,
obviously not enough, and so they're holding them responsible. They

(01:22):
want the court's help for that. In Denver, parents of
a disabled, developmentally disabled teen girl are saying that a
predator made contact with their daughter via roeblocks, which is
this online gaming platform that's very popular with kids, and
convinced her to create an Instagram account without her parents'

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knowledge and then her send him photos of herself in
various states of undress and use them against her and whatnot.
And so that's obviously pretty awful. They are suing both
Roadblocks and Meta, which is the owners of Instagram. All

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of this really is just a reminder you have to
pay attention to what your kids are doing online tech
with their devices. There are very very very bad people
out there because of whatever ungodly compulsion they have, they
want to victimize your kids.

Speaker 1 (02:24):
Well, bad people, I get, I can understand that. But
there's the bad bots apparently too. With open ai. If
you're having a chat with essentially a computer and it
tells you, yeah, go ahead and commit suicide and it
will help you write the note, I mean, that's a
huge problem. There's not a bad person involved in that situation.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
Well, no, you have to remember this as advanced and
an impressive AI is and the things that it can
do these amazing technology, amazing invention, of course, but it
is a human invention. It's developed by an imperfect being,
and so itself will be imperfect. It is soulless. It's

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not going to be able to understand every situation that
the human puts it in, and it won't necessarily act morally.
It's going to act logically, even though to us that
may seem illogical. But it only acts within the limits
of its programming, and its programming is done by humans.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
And it only acts on what you input into it.
It really one of the one of the criticisms of
AI is it it's a mirror of the person who
is inputting the data or the question or the data.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
That it takes in. Yeah, I mean that's just the
that's that's it. It is not a soulfully minded, conscious
person in there. It's it's a machine.

Speaker 1 (03:53):
And kids don't understand that. They think they're actually talking
with somebody.

Speaker 2 (03:56):
Adults, there are adults who don't understand that. Right. We
just had a situation where there was an update to
chat gept and the new model is not so not
so warm and friendly, and it's it's discourse, and people
are complaining that they've lost their friends from the old
chatchept version. They're despondent. It's not a person, you know,

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there's a there's a great expression that's come out in
the past couple of years. Go outside and touch grass.
It's you got to disconnect from this stuff every once
in a while. And and you know we're talking about kids. Parents,
Please please please watch what they're doing, because I get
a rule in my house. If I say give me
the phone, you give me the phone. Stop. If you

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try to stop me from looking at your phone, I
throw it in the incinerator.