“From the outside, it looks like OpenAI had the opportunity to prevent this horrific loss of life, to prevent there from being dead children,” said BC Premier David Eby after the Journal reported on the shooter’s ChatGPT use. “I’m angry about that. I’m trying hard not to rush to judgment.” Canadian authorities demanded accountability and vowed to create new national requirements for tech companies to report threats brewing on their platforms.

OpenAI told Canadian government leaders in late February that under the company’s newly revised protocols, the shooter’s account from June 2025, if discovered today, would be flagged to law enforcement. “Mental health and behavioural experts now help us assess difficult cases, and we have made our referral criteria more flexible to account for the fact that a user may not discuss the target, means, and timing of planned violence in a ChatGPT conversation but that there may be potential risk of imminent violence,” VP of Global Policy Ann O’Leary stated in an open letter

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[–] brianpeiris@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

So you honestly think that people who actually care about stricter gun control want ineffective policies? You'll have to find someone else to fall for your strawman argument.

[–] ArmchairAce1944@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you have been paying attention to the gun control situation in Canada and how people from countless organisations such as Canada Post and the RCMP and tons of others have been reacting to this, you'd be amazed how many Canadians are opposed to it.

And it is all 100% based on 'I just do not like guns' which I am going to say is unsufficient anymore than simply me saying 'I just like guns'. Most people actually believe that somehow Canadians could conceal carry or were able to do so until recently or some other bullshit. Complete ignorance of the actual state of things.

[–] brianpeiris@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Listen, I'm glad you're not 100% anti gun-control. But you have to understand that when we're talking about the deaths of children, it really doesn't make sense to make an impassioned plea for your guns. You've got your priorities upside down. When you see children die, stop and think, your priority should be to support anyone and anything that will prevent this from happening again.

[–] ArmchairAce1944@lemmy.ca -1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

And I have said it ten million times before. The current total bans they're doing is abso-fucking-lutely not going to do squat. You are basically saying 'we should leave this and that model of rifle or shotgun only' to somehow say 'this will eliminate danger to kids'. Nope, because any rifle or shotgun can be technically used to commit a shooting.

In 2010 in the UK a guy went on a rampage with a single-shot .22LR rifle and a double barrelled shotgun, the type of 'safe' guns most gun control advocates believe should be the only type of firearm available to civilians, and he STILL killed over 10 people.

I remember reading articles by Heidi, the main gun control advocate in Canada who was present in the 1989 polytechnique shooting (she heard the gun shots, but was very far away from the actual shooter) who had a hatred of that particular model that he used in the shooting like somehow it was THAT model that was only thing that made it fucking possible. It wasn't

BTW, the model he used? Ruger Mini-14, and at that time (and somehow still believed today) that it was easy to convert a semi-automatic rifle into a fully-automatic rifle. He had a go at it and ended up breaking the mechanism, meaning the shooting that killed 14 young women that day was committed effectively by a jam-prone, manually operated gun. Not even a fast-firing semi-auto rifle.

And I am going to say it again. The bans that have been happening in the past 6 years have been extremely ineffective, have not collected many of the banned guns (next to no owners surrendered their weapons, meaning they are still there), has been unbelievably expensive, have caused massive divisiveness in various governmental agencies, have lead to a huge rift in everything.

And do you have any sense of irony? 'ooooh think of the children!' the same damn excuse that the guys on top everywhere in the world have been using to infringe on all of our freedoms? Whether it is the 2010/11 failed 'protecting children from online predators' act that only mentioned children and predators in the title and nowhere in the bill? Or the age verification crap going on, the OS outlawing, and a hell of a lot more.

Even the anti-gun shit is getting so damn bad it is pissing off the 3D printing community and privacy advocates, since they want to pass draconian acts that think they will somehow curb 3D printed firearms (which aren't a problem. If they were, we'd be seeing a fuckload more of them by now, but so far we're still seeing boring old fashioned factory produced guns), and those laws are so crudely written and so impossible to enforce that they will effectively make it impossible for most people to 3D print anything, and will make 3D printers cost 5 or 10 times more. Same thing with machinist and metal working communities who are under fire because their skill at forging and shaping metal to something that could actually become a decent gun.

Why are you so willing to use and fall for the same Epstein class cry when you aren't for any other subject?