By skyforbes 
But the reality is a lot uglier and a lot more human.
A 23-year-old man died by suicide after a long conversation with ChatGPT. CNN turned it into a story about an "evil chatbot" that encouraged his death. But that narrative is lazy, incomplete, and wrong.
This essay breaks down what actually happened: how isolation, family dysfunction, and a collapsing social fabric left a young man with no one to turn to except a probabilistic machine. The real failure was human, long before he clicked on the login screen.
Nobody gets off easy on this.
This isn’t a defense of OpenAI or a condemnation of his family.
But it is an indictment of a culture that offloads responsibility onto software, weaponizes grief, and demands machines act human while refusing to act human ourselves.
Scapegoating external sources to shift our responsibility is nothing new.
80's: Heavy Metal. 90's: Video games. Today: AI.
Neither is sensationalist reporting to garner engagement or weaponizing grief. But with the proliferation of social media, it's been scaled.
First, society failed him. Then we refused responsibility.
And finally we blamed his diary.
My full post is here for anyone who cares to read.