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It was when he started to talk with the chatbot ELIZA...
A Belgian national died by suicide after talking to an artificial intelligence chatbot..
The man reportedly spoke to the AI chatbot ELIZA for six weeks on climate change, Belgian news website La Libre (article behind paywall) reported...
Mathieu Michel, the secretary of state for digitalisation in control of administrative simplication, privacy and building regulation said he was moved by the tragedy of the family and called for the matter to be taken very seriously...
Michel called for the need to define responsibilities vis a vis ChatGPT and said that the general public is now more aware of the potential of AI in the lives..
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31, Mar, 23Wife of the deceased said that Eliza has become his confidante and was ‘like a drug he used to withdraw in the morning and at night that he couldn't live without.’