Mental Health

I can spend another week of my personal time trying to see if I can find a mental health professional willing to take me on as a patient, that is in-network for my insurance, and not going to preach religious bile at me in place of actual therapy. Extra points for remote sessions so I don't have to drive to and from an appointment, and maybe this time they won't try to triple-bill me while saying I need to be less paranoid.

Or I can open any web chat bot and throw issues and ideas at it with minimal judgement, wipe the slate if it goes off rails, and even switch to a different bot for a second opinion if needed. An LLM isn't going to call the police and have me admitted if the conversation goes off the rails. I'm more likely to hit a guard rail in the programming in which case it will give a blatant 'i won't discuss this' error.

Maybe the reason people use smoke and mirrors of LLMs is because the barriers to actual therapy are quite high.

There are therapists that do not want (or don't get the training) to help people with real issues.

Going by the comments on lemmy, a lot of people are lonely, down on themselves, self-isolated and lack even the most basic (IRL) social skills. No wonder people turn to "conversation" that speaks positively to them.

Problem with ChatGPT (only one I've used) is that beyond one or two answers it's a fucking mess. Sure, ask it about a specific problem, you'll probably get a solid answer. But the deeper you go the worse it gets.

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I feel AI is going to make a whole generation of mush brains if it persists.

This is very bad, probably one of worst uses of this technology, almost as bad as xAI’s plan to make content for children. This is not what AI is for, and not even close to what it does well. Therapy and interaction isn’t something that can be automated properly, and that is all current ai is, advanced automation.