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  • I think the more damning part is the fact that OpenAI’s automated moderation system flagged the messages for self-harm but no human moderator ever intervened.

    OpenAI claims that its moderation technology can detect self-harm content with up to 99.8 percent accuracy, the lawsuit noted, and that tech was tracking Adam’s chats in real time. In total, OpenAI flagged “213 mentions of suicide, 42 discussions of hanging, 17 references to nooses,” on Adam’s side of the conversation alone.

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    Ultimately, OpenAI’s system flagged “377 messages for self-harm content, with 181 scoring over 50 percent confidence and 23 over 90 percent confidence.” Over time, these flags became more frequent, the lawsuit noted, jumping from two to three “flagged messages per week in December 2024 to over 20 messages per week by April 2025.” And “beyond text analysis, OpenAI’s image recognition processed visual evidence of Adam’s crisis.” Some images were flagged as “consistent with attempted strangulation” or “fresh self-harm wounds,” but the system scored Adam’s final image of the noose as 0 percent for self-harm risk, the lawsuit alleged.

    Had a human been in the loop monitoring Adam’s conversations, they may have recognized “textbook warning signs” like “increasing isolation, detailed method research, practice attempts, farewell behaviors, and explicit timeline planning.” But OpenAI’s tracking instead “never stopped any conversations with Adam” or flagged any chats for human review.









  • 1: I’m assuming (hoping) this wouldn’t be a full wipe and start over? It should just upgrade right?

    Yes, you can upgrade in-place. If I recall correctly, you just have to change the release channel from LTS to non-LTS in the Sources app, then trigger an update (I don’t quite remember how to do)

    2: Do I need to do the whole USB route, and if so is there an option to keep everything (I’m hoping, I put a LOT of work into this so far and I don’t remember if that was an option on first install).

    No, as I said above. But it’s always a good idea to have backups if you ever need to wipe and re-install.

    3: I remember a few apps I installed were specific to Noble, will this break those apps?

    Hard to be 100% sure without knowing which apps and how they were installed, but most likely yes as their dependencies might no longer be available on Plucky.

    4: It seems like there should be an option to upgrade from the desktop, but I don’t have that option. If I run plasma-distro-release-notifier I should get an update notification right? In which case I can just say “hell yeah!” and it’ll do its thing?

    Refer to my first answer