Tumbler Ridge shooter's ChatGPT use "more disturbing" than known: reporter(www.cbc.ca)
21 pointsby devonnull2 hours ago7 comments
  • doodlebugging11 minutes ago
    There is more to the story. They have arrested an American from Bellingham, WA for providing material assistance to the Tumbler Ridge, BC shooter. [0]

    [0] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/livestory/tu...

    It's funny that this OP's post was on the front page minutes ago but is rapidly being buried. I had to use the search function to comment on this thread. It has dropped completely off of the list of over 650 posts.

    OpenAI and ChatGPT evidently have a ridiculous number of supporters willing to bury anything this uncomplimentary and disturbing.

    Maybe they feel responsible.

    Hopefully they are held responsible. This incident is the catalyst for changing laws in Canada that may lead to individuals and corporations being held personally responsible when bad things happen. [1]

    Wouldn't it be great to see the day when the C-levels who decide to deploy hardware/software/other solutions that obviously will cause deaths and destruction can be held liable in a real court and suffer severe sanctions as a result? I'm okay with the death penalty in these cases, for the corporation and the management that allowed or encouraged the destructive outcome in order to protect profits or solidify market advantages.

    [1]https://fraservalleytoday.ca/2026/09/25/cp-newsalert-b-c-ag-...

  • smallnix39 minutes ago
    > seeing a gun can increase aggression-called the "weapons effect

    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28918699/

    I did not know that this topic has been subject to research.

  • mistralFan19 minutes ago
    The shooter notably also created a "Shooting Simulator" on Roblox: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/13/canada-school-....
    • fragmede7 minutes ago
      Yeah but that's not a crime. Having fantasies that you recreate digitally is one thing. Sharing them with other people is another. It's another thing entirely to actually do them though. At the end of the day, we're trending in a dangerous direction of thought crime, where thinking things is a crime. Which it's not. I've already committed multiple felonies in my imagination before breakfast, merely by thinking them, but because they're a figment of imagination and no one got hurt, there's nothing wrong with that.
  • samenamean hour ago
    > "In a hallway, indoors, or a crowded classroom, the 870 [Remington shotgun] is brutal," it quotes ChatGPT as saying. "Close quarters is its playground."

    You have to be kidding me

    • IshKebaban hour ago
      You know how AI works right? This shouldn't really be surprising to anyone here.
  • TZubirian hour ago
    >"I think if we do the right changes to the Criminal Code, it will change the behaviour of AI companies, because there will be a clear line to accountability,"

    Isn't it a judicial issue? How is a chatbot owned and operated by a company materially different than the responsibility of an accident involving an unmanned vehicle or machine owned and operated by a company?

    • harwoodran hour ago
      Perhaps because the chatbot is advising the user on how to act in a given situation... and how to circumvent having their chatGPT prompts flagged by the system.
  • 1p09gj20g8h25 minutes ago
    anddddd deranked in 5 4 3 2...
  • delichonan hour ago
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    • outoftheabyssan hour ago
      Realism would involve using the correct pronouns. There has been a political/cultural impetus towards ignoring gender differences full stop. Men of course have a higher propensity towards violence, it is society’s/ parent’s role to ensure that is channeled for good, unfortunately, as in this case, a higher prevalence of mental illness makes this even more difficult
    • dash2an hour ago
      Is it that taboo? The BBC article has: "Van Rootselaar was born a biological male, but identified as a female, authorities said."
    • trial3an hour ago
      putting women in quotes gives the game up. i don’t know what reasonable dialog you’re looking to have
      • throwawayfifoan hour ago
        >putting women in quotes gives the game up.

        What does that mean in this context?

        • superb_devan hour ago
          It means the original comment is poorly veiled transphobia
          • doawooan hour ago
            they're gonna downvote us for this, thanks
        • doawooan hour ago
          putting it in quotes is done usually to try to exclude or differentiate trans women from women in general. This is transphobia. Trans women are women.
    • an hour ago
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