Don't know if that is what the story is about, though it seems like it might be... I get a parent wanting to blame someone for a son/daughter committing suicide. It's a human thing to want to find a reason. And I'm not saying it has to be poor parenting either... but... I wish in grief people wouldn't knee-jerk blame anyone or anything. It doesn't help the next person at all.
Blaming an AI or a video game or a movie or a book or even a "bad influence" friend... there is way more going on in a person's life that leads them to suicide.
Think about other things. A bad influence friends talks your kid into helping him break into a house and rob someone. Sure, it's an easy thing to point at the bad influence kid who had the idea... but your kid didn't take too much convincing to go along... probably means it sounded like a good idea. Doesn't make your kid evil, but certainly says he leans in a direction where it probably didn't take much convincing.
Suicide is complex. People don't just wake up and stub their toe and in an otherwise perfect life that toe stubbing causes them to kill themself. Suicide in the exact moment might be an impulse decision to commit... but for a person to get there means they've been suffering for a while.
Society all too often wants to blame and move on, but doesn't really care if the right thing is blamed or if any study or attempt to correct is made. I've done some simulated suicides on AI chat sessions... as in, I'll talk about being depressed and the AI gives a bunch of canned responses same as I've heard on the suicide hotline chats... then I'll throw up my hands in frustration and tell the AI I'm dead. At that point the AI usually goes into a mode of saying it is going to take steps for this to "never happen again" and to "go on in my name" and so forth... all the platitudes and canned nonsense that a lot of real people say when someone dies to make themselves feel better.
And, hey, making yourself able to go on living after losing someone close to you is part of life... I get it... but I wish the canned platitudes didn't just stop there... and someone, or a lot of someones, would actually try to improve the world so that it doesn't keep happening to more of us over and over.
