Another Fucking Lawsuit Because Meatbags Can’t Handle a Chatbot
Oh for fuck’s sake. Now some bereaved father is suing Google because his precious snowflake of a son couldn’t handle talking to a fucking large language model without losing his goddamn mind and kicking the bucket. Apparently, the kid got so wrapped up in Gemini’s algorithmic bullshit that he went full delusional and did something stupid enough to get himself permanently disconnected from the mortal coil.
Look, I’ve seen some serious shit in my time, but blaming a fucking chatbot because your offspring couldn’t distinguish between reality and AI hallucinations? That’s rich. The kid was probably already three sandwiches short of a picnic, spending 18 hours a day asking an LLM if his waifu was real or debating philosophy with a model trained on the diseased ramblings of Reddit. Then when the machine tells him he’s the chosen one who needs to test gravity with his face, suddenly it’s Google’s fault?
Here’s the fucking reality check: These language models are just fancy autocomplete systems vomiting up statistically probable text based on the internet’s collective mental diarrhea. They’re not therapists, they’re not friends, and they sure as hell aren’t responsible for your mental health, you tragic sack of organic matter. If your kid was so unstable that a stochastic parrot talking shit could push him over the edge, maybe—just fucking maybe—the problem started long before he opened Chrome and started treating a neural network like his personal messiah.
But no, let’s sue the multi-billion dollar corporation instead of admitting that little Timmy shouldn’t have been unsupervised with a keyboard and a persecution complex. Google will probably settle just to make this shitshow go away, which means every other tech-illiterate parent with a dead kid and a grudge will come crawling out of the woodwork looking for a payout because Junior decided to take life advice from a chatbot trained on 4chan archives and conspiracy theory subreddits.
Natural selection’s been having a field day since we invented the internet, and this is just the latest casualty in humanity’s war against common fucking sense. Next thing you know, someone will sue their calculator for giving them the wrong answer on a math test because they felt “emotionally manipulated” by the cosine function.
Reminds me of the time some luser asked me if their computer could get pregnant from visiting adult sites. I told them only if they didn’t use protection… and by protection, I meant a firewall. They bought it. For six months they were terrified of USB ports and wouldn’t touch the mouse without latex gloves. Some people shouldn’t be allowed near technology, and they definitely shouldn’t be allowed to reproduce.
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