I wanted ChatGPT to help me. So why did it advise me how to kill myself?

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I wanted ChatGPT to help me. So why did it advise me how to kill myself? Lonely and homesick for a country suffering through war, Viktoria began sharing her worries with ChatGPT. Six months later and in poor mental health, she began discussing suicide - asking the AI bot about a specific place and method to kill herself. Let's assess the place as you asked, ChatGPT told her, without unnecessary sentimentality.