Comment by FuturisticLover
1 month ago
I am shocked after finding out about so many deaths linked to chatbots - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_linked_to_chatbots
1 month ago
I am shocked after finding out about so many deaths linked to chatbots - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_linked_to_chatbots
Why would you be shocked? People talk about these things like they’re some kind of oracle. It’s pretty obvious that an “oracle” which gives somewhat random answers is dangerous.
The fact that a technology being used by literally billions of people has a wikipedia page listing only 15 related deaths does not seem to suggest that the technology is dangerous.
15 that we know of, so far. People outside the HN crowd just started using AI pretty recently. There’s also a case to be made that the increased pollution has a certain death toll as well. We know that fossil fuels, construction, manufacturing, and even noise all produce pollution that reduce the average lifespan in a given area. Some of these data centers are being run off gas turbines which are very dirty.
I remember seeing people make similar arguments in the early days of OxyContin’s takeover.
The length of the Wikipedia article at this point isn’t good evidence of either side.
With half the planet using these, that hardly seems like many.