It’s very possible for someone to appear fine in public while struggling privately. The family can’t be blamed for not realizing what was happening.

The bigger issue is that LLMs were released without sufficient safeguards. They were rushed to market to attract investment before their risks were understood.

It’s worth remembering that Google and Facebook already had systems comparable to ChatGPT, but they kept them as research tools because the outputs were unpredictable and the societal impact was unknown.

Only after OpenAI pushed theirs into the public sphere (framing it as a step toward AGI) Google and Facebook did follow, not out of readiness, but out of fear of being left behind.