This should be straight up illegal. If a company allows it then they should 100% be liable for anything that happens.
Well yeah, and it looks like one of my friends went even more crazy because his desires were supported by AI, and on top of that he became some kind of weird and suspicious guy, it’s creepy.
Therapy is expensive in US. Even with insurance 40 bucks a session a week adds up fast.
Also - a lot of US therapists have fundamentally useless and unhelpful approaches. CBT is treated as the hammer for all nails, even when it is completely ineffective for many people. It’s easy to train therapists on though, and sending someone home with a worksheet and a Program is an easy “fix.”
There’s also the undeniable influence of fuckers like Dr. Phil. A lot of therapists view their job as forcing you to be “normal” rather than understanding you as a human being.
We need more Maslow and Rogers, and a lot less Skinner.
Thank you. There’s the cost, I can’t find a therapist for $40 a session, but even that would be prohibitively expensive. But people never talk about how Therapy in capitalist society is just a cash cow business, and the easiest most profitable methods are widespread. Most therapists, or presumably the experts being quoted on the dangers of talking to a language model, are ineffective for most people.
CBT? Cock and Ball Torture? I think you’re going to the wrong therapist. Sounds like my kind of party though. Got an address or…?
Any reasonnably competent LLM is way WAY better at self-therapy than the Dr Phil McDonalds comformity therapy
And that’s arguably better than doing nothing about itBut yes, I can easily make an LLM tell my to KYS
Then report to the press about it while downplaying the context to get there.
and then get the AI company to further lobotomized the model so it can’t be used to undermine this professional class
Well obviously, it would be pretty bad if a therapist was triggering psychosis in some users
“That’s an interesting worldview you have, Trish! Let’s actualize your goals! I’ve located the nearest agricultural stores with fertilizer and some cheap U-Haul vans you can rent!”
This is sad to me. When I was younger and would get lonely enough I’d go to a bar and talk to strangers. When I was a little bit older I would just post on social. Neither of those things are particularly useful or productive but they at least involved other people. I’m glad I wasn’t being targeted with ads about how great AI is and reading articles about its effectiveness (nyt [i think] had one in the last few days.) I’m an introverted person and it used to take a good bit of discomfort to get me out and talking to people. If I had something that provided a good enough simulacrum of social contact without the anxieties and weirdness that can come from talking to strangers I think my life would be very different. It’s important to spread awareness of the dangers of robosexuality
But, if people chat privatelywith each other in public spaces, how are we meant to control the conversation and tell people what to think?
No, A.I. generated kompromat-capture is the only possible way people can receive therapy.
Which is why OpenAI put relationships with real people as a competitor of ChatGPT.
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It’s sad but expected. People really have no fucking clue about anything meaningful, mindlessly going through life chasing highs and bags, so why wouldn’t they fall for branding (there’s never been any intelligence in anything computational, ‘AI’ included, of course)? I’m really frustrated with the world and there’s seemingly no way to wake people up from their slumber. You can’t even be mad at them because the odds of them being just mentally handicapped and not just poor in character are very high… and they vote, will interact with my future children, etc etc. 😭
The amount of people around me who are actively depending on their AI chatbots, trusting them so much so that they treat it like their personal companion, enjoying AI generated content on these short-form content platforms, putting up their AI ghibili profile pics on their social media, is very concerning. It’s sad state we have reached and it will go worse from here on.
They are no alternative at all if any of the reports of AI “therapists” to recommend suicide to depressed people or to take drugs as a treat to recovering addicts.
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