Regular people would not be held liable for this. It would be a dubious case even if a human helped another human to do this.

Regular people don't have global reach and influence over humanity's agency, attention, beliefs, politics and economics.

	▲	logicx24 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		If Donald Trump did this, he wouldn't be criminally liable either.

sumeno 12 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

There have absolutely been cases of people being held criminally liable for encouraging someone to commit suicide.

In California it is a felony

> Any person who deliberately aids, advises, or encourages another to commit suicide is guilty of a felony.

>>>> helped... write a suicide note.

> encouraging someone to commit suicide.

These are not the same thing. And the evidence from the article is that the bot was anything but encouraging of this plan, up until the end.

	▲	sumeno 10 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		That's for the jury to decide.
	▲	FireBeyond 11 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Very cherry picked. That would absolutely be "aiding" someone. "I don't want my family to worry about what's happening".

lokar 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

A therapist might face major consequences