Is this the tragic result of an innovator's social-psychological experiment?

The tragic story of how Eliza, an AI chatbot, "encouraged" a family man to take his own life is featured in these two articles:

Despite claims to the contrary, there are numerous reports of damaging outcomes from the use of ChatGPT and Microsoft's AI-powered Bing. Here is one example:

Are these the results of innovators' social-psychological experiments in the race to be the next biggest innovation? Sound familiar?

Humanity should brace itself for well-funded and sponsored generative AI-based innovations that will be used for large-scale disinformation, corruption of moral judgement, manipulation of naïve users, and cyberattacks.

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