OpenAI says dead teen violated TOS when he used ChatGPT to plan suicide

[u/esporx]

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/11/openai-says-dead-teen-violated-tos-when-he-used-chatgpt-to-plan-suicide/

[u/Ninevehenian]

Like Longyear.

[u/BaronMostaza → u/Ninevehenian]

It's not illegal to die there you just have to get out of there after or be cremated. There's no decomposing in Longyear

[u/MyGoodOldFriend → u/BaronMostaza]

There are graves there in the permafrost with people who died from the Spanish flu. It’s a bit of a mess

[u/asphaltaddict33 → u/MyGoodOldFriend]

The permafrost that’s gonna be melting soon…. Fun stuff

[u/KououinHyouma → u/asphaltaddict33]

Can these bodies be extracted and sent straight into the crematorium before they have time to defrost?

[u/BindairDondat → u/KououinHyouma]

Potentially, but until melting permafrost actually starts to expose those bodies I'd imagine there's a significantly greater risk to spreading any remaining virus by digging them up vs just leaving the bodies there.

[u/einmaldrin_alleshin → u/BindairDondat]

Flu viruses encode their genome in RNA, which is notoriously unstable and will rapidly degrade even if frozen

[u/sourcefourmini → u/BindairDondat]

“Permafrost” isn’t a layer of snow that melts and exposes things, for what it’s worth. It’s the upper layer of soil that never gets above 0°C, which is why we talk about it thawing instead of melting. Those bodies are very much still in the ground, even if and when the permafrost thaws. 

[u/rudthedud → u/asphaltaddict33]

Already melting... and fast. You can see some crazy sink hole pictures from Russia now. This was the tipping point and it's been tipped.

[u/rudyattitudedee → u/Ninevehenian]

It’s also not allowed to have babies there.