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cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/4958707
I find this bleak in ways it’s hard to even convey
The only people that think this will help are people that don't know what therapy is. At best, this is pacification and certainly not any insightful incision into your actual problems. And the reason friends are unable to allow casual emotion venting is because we have so much stupid shit like this plastering over a myriad of very serious issues.
I can't wait until ChatGPT starts inserting ads into its responses. "Wow that sounds really tough. You should learn to love yourself and not be so hard on yourself when you mess up. It's a really good thing to treat yourself occasionally, such as with an ice cold Coca-Cola or maybe a large order of McDonald's French fries!"
Black mirror lol
That episode was so disturbing 😅
Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives
In a way that the relief is to give us our demands subliminally. This way the only rich person who is safe is our subject.
This is terrible. I'm going to ignore the issues concerning privacy since that's already been brought up here and highlight another major issue: it's going to get people hurt.
I did a deep dive with gen AI for a month a few weeks ago.
It taught me that gen AI is actually brilliant at certain things. One thing that gen AI does is it learns what you want and makes you believe it’s giving you exactly what you want. In a sense it's actually incredibly manipulative and one of the things gen AI is brilliant at. As you interact with gen AI within the same context window, it quickly picks up on who you are, then subtly tailors its responses to you.
I also noticed that as gen AI's context grew, it became less "objective". This makes sense since gen AI is likely tailoring the responses for me specifically. However, when this happens, the responses also end up being wrong more often. This also tracks, since correct answers are usually objective.
If people started to use gen AI for therapy, it's very likely they will converse within one context window. In addition, they will also likely ask gen AI for advice (or gen AI may even offer advice unprompted because it loves doing that). However, this is where things can go really wrong.
Gen AI cannot "think" of a solution, evaluate the downsides of the solution, and then offer it to you because gen AI can't "think" period. What gen AI will do is it will offer you what sounds like solutions and reasons. And because gen AI is so good at understanding who you are and what you want, it will frame the solutions and reasons in a way that appeals to you. On top of all of this, due to the long-running context window, it's very likely the advice gen AI gives will be bad advice. For someone who is in a vulnerable and emotional state, the advice may seem reasonable, good even.
If people then act on this advice, the consequences can be disastrous. I've read enough horror stories about this.
Anyway, I think therapy might be one of the worst uses for gen AI.
Does gen AI say you you are worthless, you are ugly, you are the reason your parents devorced, you should kill yourself, you should doomscroll social media?
Thank you for the more detailed run down. I would set it against two other things, though. One, that for someone who is suicidal or similar, and can't face or doesn't know how to find a person to talk to, those beginning interactions of generic therapy advice might (I imagine; I'm not speaking from experience here) do better than nothing.
From that, secondly, more general about AI. Where I've tried it it's good with things people have already written lots about. E.g. a programming feature where people have already asked the question a hundred different ways on stack overflow. Not so good with new things - it'll make up what its training data lacks. The human condition is as old as humans. Sure, there's some new and refined approaches, and values and worldviews change over the generations, but old good advice is still good advice. I can imagine in certain ways therapy is an area where AI would be unexpectedly good...
...Notwithstanding your point, which I think is quite right. And as the conversation goes on the risk gets higher and higher. I, too, worry about how people might get hurt.
I agree that this like everything else is nuanced. For instance, I think if people who use gen AI as a tool to help with their mental health are knowledgeable about the limitations, then they can craft some ways to use it while minimizing the negative sides. Eg. Maybe you can set some boundaries like you talk to the AI chat bot but you never take any advice from it. However, i think in the average case it's going to make things worse.
I've talked to a lot of people around me about gen AI recently and I think the vast majority of people are misinformed about how it works, what it does, and what the limitations are.
I've tried this ai therapist thing, and it's awful. It's ok to help you work out what you're thinking, but absymal at analyzing you. I got some structured timelines back fro. It that I USED in therapy, but AI is a dangerous alternative to human therapy.
My $.02 anyway.
unlike humans, the ai listens to and remembers me to me [for the number of characters allotted]. this will help me feel seen i guess
You know a reply's gonna be good when it starts with "unlike humans" 😁
Am I old fashioned for wanting to talk to real humans instead?
No. But when the options are either:
it's quite understandable that some people choose the one that is a privacy nightmare but keeps them sane and away from some dark thoughts.
I listen to vents, it's just I don't havd opinions after that are useful.
I do get a bit of ringing in my ear after a while though.
Ahh yes the random rolling stone article that refutes the point
Let's revisit the list, shall we?
But I want to hear other people's vents...😥
Maybe a career in HVAC repair is just the thing for you!
Please continue to be you, we need more folks like you.
You're a good friend. I wish everyone has someone like this. I have a very small group of mates where I can be vulnerable without being judged. But not everyone are as privileged, unfortunately...
My friend went from vulnerable and listening, to getting poisoned by sigma crap.
What could go wrong?
AI-Fueled Spiritual Delusions Are Destroying Human Relationships - https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-spiritual-delusions-destroying-human-relationships-1235330175/
Cheaper than paying people better, I suppose.
Let's not pretend people aren't already skipping therapy sessions over the cost
I’m not, I’m saying people’s mental health would be better if pay was better.
People's lack of awareness of how important accessibility is really shows in this thread.
Privacy leaking is much lesser issue than not having anyone to talk to for many people, especially in poorer countries.
A human therapist might not or is less likely to share any personal details about your conversations with anyone.
An AI therapist will collate, collect, catalog, store and share every single personal detail about you with the company that owns the AI and share and sell all your data to the highest bidder.
the AI therapist probably can't force you into a psych ward though, a human psychologist is obligated to (under the right conditions).
Neither would a human therapist be inclined to find the perfect way to use all this information to manipulate people while they are being at their weakest. Let alone do it to thousands, if not millions of them all at the same time.
They are also pushing for the idea of an AI "social circle" for increasingly socially isolated people through which world view and opinions can be bent to whatever whoever controls the AI desires.
To that we add the fact that we now know they've been experimenting with tweaking Grok to make it push all sorts of political opinions and conspiracy theories. And before that, they manipulated Twitter's algorithm to promote their political views.
Knowing all this, it becomes apparent that we are currently witnessing is a push for a whole new level of human mind manipulation and control experiment that will make the Cambridge Analytica scandal look like a fun joke.
Forget Neuralink. Musk already has a direct connection into the brains of many people.
If the title is a question, the answer is no
If the title is a question, the answer is no
A student of Betteridge, I see.
I suppose this can be mitigated by installing a local LLM that doesn't phone home. But there's still a risk of getting downright bad advice since so many LLM's just tell their users they're always right or twist the facts to fit that view.
I've been guilty of this as well, I've used ChatGPT as a "therapist" before. It actually gives decently helpful advice, compared to what's out there available after a google search. But I'm fully aware of the risks "down the road", so to speak.
Enter the Desolatrix