I feel like the son should take the blame. There's never been any shortage of bad advice being passed around. He made the credulous decision to take a mix of party drugs and drink, and I can't believe he had never been told that's a stupid idea.

It's sad and I'm not heartless, but sometimes kids make bad decisions. It's not always somebody else's fault.

I agree, there are a few simple hard and fast rules you can follow to be a safe drug user and never mixing drugs is paramount. That is one thing I will always explain to my children that mixing drugs is another layer of gambling on top of you already being dose-unaware and purity-unaware.

Surely there's room for the view that this is misaligned behavior for ChatGPT to have. I would guess this is during the "sycophantic" phase last year.

I don't know: we brand LLMs as "artificial intelligence", like it's the computer out of star trek.

On this website most of us know what an LLM is and how it works, but I could well see a young person asking it for advice and not knowing it could say the wrong thing.

If it's the son's fault, then AI companies need to stop acting like their products are genius machines. Can't have it both ways.

If a real person gave them this advice, like a doctor or pharmacist, there would be standing for a lawsuit, might even be criminal.

Looking past "drugs bad mkay", the same ChatGPT that gave this advice is just as capable of giving the same, or worse, advice to someone wondering if they can take an allergy medication like Benedryl with their MAOI antidepressant.