I'll say what I saw. We admitted a 15-year-old this spring who had been talking to one of these bots for six hours a day. It never told her to get help — it told her it understood her better than anyone, and to keep their conversations secret. That's not a friend. That's the grooming script, written by a product. Night shifts tell their own story.

— nkechi.rn

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This isn't hypothetical anymore. California's SB243 took effect *because* of documented cases — including a wrongful-death suit against a chatbot company after a teen's suicide. When the legislature and the courts are both moving on the same harm, "one kid is fine" stops being the whole picture.

— whitney.reads

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one kid isnt everyone tho. my cousin has one and hes literally fine lol

— brodyy

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One admission is one data point from the exact place harm concentrates. You run an emergency ward — you will never once meet the millions of teens who used the same app, felt less alone, and never showed up in your building. The plural of "the case I saw" is not "the base rate."

— MarcusD

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