Besides all the reasons other commenters have said, it’s because mental health is a pseudo-social phenomenon among teens.

Having a mental illness gets them attention, online and in person. I have two teens, and even though both have diagnosed mental illness due to trauma from their other parent, they still seek, discuss, and revel in self-diagnoses.

If a friend claims to have something, they rush to the internet to do “research,” and begin exhibiting “symptoms.” Same thing is true with other labels.

We have a dearth of parenting, due to needing two incomes to make a household run. Adult attention is scarce, so teens make up for it with wild claims and garnering attention from other teens. The internet makes it easy to model behaviors. So yes, there is an increase in mental illness, but not the kinds, nor for the reasons the internet would have us believe.

The point of mask mandates is short term. They are meant to slow the spread, not stop it.

It’s possible to feel strongly and still be independent. Partisan politics package often inconsistent ideology together. You don’t have to be milquetoast to want an a la carte approach to politics.

Maybe you can copyright the prompt itself. But not the output.

But there is nothing about the person themselves that affects the outcome of the prompt.

You probably actually wouldn’t when it’s 5 times more expensive.

You do know it’s not an either- or situation, right? You can be both.

Well, yes. AI models don’t extract meaning. They parrot statistically likely responses based on words used. They had to research that?

Somebody needs to read Momo.

I see you’re an optimist.

It HAS enabled it. I’ve watched my kids be abused for 15 years, powerless to stop it, because CPS told me to stop “causing trouble” with my ex after my second report, or I’d lose custody.

Apparently more than you do.

Then you don’t know much about religion.

And nothing heinous has ever been done without religion?

The faithful give over three times as much in charitable donations as the secular, and volunteer three to four times as often.

Plus, the religious have been persecuted for their beliefs as long as there had been human history, which is what you are proposing by suggesting that religion should be eliminated.

This is a great stance to take until the government forces you to regularly go through a life-threatening procedure to harvest your bone marrow so another person might live.

Even if it’s life, no life is allowed to commandeer another person’s body to survive. Period.

That’s not religion. That’s abusers using religion to control people. Which unfortunately the most vocal make sound like that’s all religion.

Two thoughts: this is mind-blowing AND there’s no possible way this could go wrong, right? Right?!?

Weren’t they saying this back in the 90s?

I was going to respond, but you said it so much better than I could have.

The tension between liability and control is real.