u/xFynex

I’ve seen people claim he was a delivery boy who came to the castle, and that’s how he came to meet Frank. But… delivering what? I did look through the stage show script a bit and it has him coming out of a coca cola machine instead of a freezer. Did he deliver sodas…? Is this addressed more in the stage show, and I just skimmed too fast?

Even so, why did he have a saxophone with him? Or did Frank just have one at the castle? In “Hot Patootie”, he says “a saxophone was blowin’ on a rock-n-roll show”, but he doesn’t say that HE was blowin it. Or was it playing on the radio?

So… Was he a rock star, or at least in a band? If not, then how did Columbia get a giant poster and a guitar with his face on it? Did she have that custom made?

I’ve been considering writing a fanfic prequel/midquel but I have so many questions. This is the main one that’s holding me up. Why is he titled “ex-delivery boy”? Is he “ex” because he’s now frozen in the freezer? Or because he hit the big time?

I was not in a crisis. I haven’t been in a crisis in over 15 years. I was simply talking about how chronic suicidality has affected my life and thought processes, and it hit me with this.

I had only been using the app (Sonia) for a little over a day, and I was still nearly devastated by this, because I had been really enjoying it so far. This hurt even more considering I had told the AI about my medical trauma—my bad experiences with the crisis hotlines, my medical trauma from my last hospital stay, the malpractice I suffered at the hands of my psychiatrist, and plenty more that I won’t mention here—all of which is exactly why I’ve turned to AI to get any kind of support at all.

Now I’m completely locked out of my account and don’t even have the option to go back in and delete it.

Like, I get it. The precedent is there for lawsuits against AI companies from bereaved families. I have to censor myself and preemptively say I’m safe before mentioning anything slightly pessimistic with any other app because the constant reminders and scripts telling me to call 988 or text HOME to 741741 are honestly more triggering to me than they are helpful. But I think this CYA policy is taking it a bit far, and may very well do more harm than good—at least for the users.

I can only imagine how this would have landed if I were actually in a crisis, or if I had been using the app for longer.

Besides this, their app claims to be “HIPAA compliant”, but their privacy policy directly contradicts this, and there’s no way for you opt out of them using your data and conversations for training. I think I counted a dozen or more different companies your “anonymized” information would be passed along to. So, I’d recommend anyone stay away from this app regardless, if you value privacy at all.

What are everyone’s thoughts on this? Am I the only one who thinks a move like this could be dangerous?

(I’m new to this sub so hopefully I didn’t break any rules—I tried to keep it focused on what mattered without getting too graphic or detailed. I wasn’t sure if I should put the specific content I was warning about in the title or not.)

TL;DR: I think this policy is messed up. AITA?

Eddie: Ex-Delivery Boy? or Rocker?

Interesting Policy… (cw)