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- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.zip
- technology@beehaw.org
Reddit’s conversational AI product, Reddit Answers, suggested users who are interested in pain management try heroin and kratom, showing yet another extreme example of dangerous advice provided by a chatbot, even one that’s trained on Reddit’s highly coveted trove of user-generated data.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bromism
However, a man was poisoned in 2025, after a suggestion of ChatGPT to replace sodium chloride in his diet with sodium bromide; sodium bromide is a safe replacement only for non-nutritional purposes, i.e., cleaning.[3][4][5]
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Y’all ever read that thread of the guy getting addicted to heroin? Truly surreal.
Just a bored guy decides to get something new from his dealer and posts about it on reddit. The next 2 years comments are a cautionary tale.
/U/SpontaneousH for anyone morbidly curious.
Alternate link to somewhat prevent Google from interlinking us with you quite so tightly
Original reddit link:
https://old.reddit.com/r/BORUpdates/comments/16223aj/updatesaga_the_emotional_saga_of_spontaneoush_the/Automated summary:
Reddit … the gateway drug
I mean if Ai says so…
YOLO
I am not even sure if Heroin exists anymore in most of the US.
This is why I’m glad I’m on lemmy and not reddit. And why we should not want to be allowing AI generating messages on this website in lieu of comments and posts from other people.
