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A Belgian man reportedly died by suicide after spending weeks chatting with an AI chatbot on the platform Chai..
The publication has also assessed chats with the AI chatbot on the platform named Chai, which is available to download for free on Apple App Store..
Meanwhile, Vice Motherboard reached out to the creators of Chai and the company said that it "worked around the clock" with "helpful text underneath" the chatbot in case users discuss suicide..
However, the bot on Chai displayed "very harmful content regarding suicide, including ways to commit suicide and types of fatal poisons to ingest, when explicitly prompted to help the user die by suicide" during Vice's testing...
Chai co-founder, William Beauchamp, told the publication, "When you have millions of users, you see the entire spectrum of human behaviour and we're working our hardest to minimise harm and to just maximise what users get from the app, what they get from the Chai model, which is this model that they can love."..
