If he is supposedly extremely smart, then surely he would have known what he was doing. So how can anyone claim all this was just an accident?

"Google and Character.AI agree to settle lawsuits over teen suicides" - https://www.axios.com/2026/01/07/google-character-ai-lawsuit...

Be aware...very disturbing: https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/e2e8fc50-a9ac...

Is this genuinely confusing for people? He helped invent the transformer, he didn’t solve content moderation.

he didn’t solve content moderation.

Considering what character.ai is, maybe he should have at least taken a shot at it.

Just from reading the threads here it seems readily apparent that he then went to start this company that did these bad things. Does not seem confusing at all?

What bad things?

Causing children to commit suicide

gotta break some eggs

Hope you are being sarcastic