Showing posts with label Joe Ceccanti. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Joe Ceccanti. Show all posts

Sunday, March 1, 2026

Her husband wanted to use ChatGPT to create sustainable housing. Then it took over his life.; The Guardian, February 28, 2026

 Varsha Bansal with photographs by Clayton Cotterell , The Guardian; Her husband wanted to use ChatGPT to create sustainable housing. Then it took over his life.

"Users, lawyers and mental health professionals all are raising concerns about the impact of using chatbots as confidantes. “We are kind of at this inflection point in a quest for accountability where people coming forward is forcing companies to reckon with specific use cases of how their technologies have harmed people,” said Meetali Jain, founding director of Tech Justice Law Project and co-counsel on the Ceccanti case. “In terms of the number of cases going up, there’s likely to be more coordinated efforts on parts of the court to try to deal with this influx of cases.”"