my sister told me she uses chatgpt as a therapist and i had to take a deep breath so i didn't launch into an insane rant about it. then my mom mentioned she had mandatory trainings on it at work but she thinks it's stupid
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I'm a lawyer at a small nonprofit so we haven't taken the same sharp turn towards AI that lots of big law behemoths seem to have done, and every time I see another news story about it hallucinating fake case citations or something, I am gladder than ever not to be working in corporate
I mean what's the worst you could happen if you replace your therapist with a chatbot that's programmed to be uncritically supportive of all your opinions?
idk man like environmental and labor and theft issues aside i just don't want to talk to or use the autocomplete machine that encourages psychosis in any way. it is very creepy to me and maybe i've hit my "tech seems scary and weird" age but i'm basically fine with being resistant to this
copium possibly but i don't believe people who refuse to adopt AI are going to be left behind like people claim, if anything i think we're going to be better off once they start charging for it and suddenly it's not cost effective for businesses and individuals to use it anymore
Hate to be a doomer about stuff like this but as soon as AI garbage collapses because it's not the new kid in school, there's going to be Haves and Have Nots of people who have actual skills and people who were just fucking around with Smarter Child.
when i finally learned how the US moves money around and the way the funding works i lay down on the ground for twenty minutes just staring at the ceiling
I don’t think it’s hyperbole to also say that people who refused to use AI will retain a depth of critical thinking and informational analysis that many people will have simply never developed.
wait till it once again doesn't matter, because the outcomes of current capitalistic society are mostly predetermined and absolutely not what the myth of meritocracy is asserting
AI is too shit to live. Using it imposes ridiculous cost for weak output and asking even just $10/mo causes comical userbase falloff.
Even adopters don't wanna pay to have AI. And why would they? It sucks. OpenAI spent $9 billion to lose $5 billion in 2024, and they're poised to lose more.
yeah i keep having that "am i so out of touch...?" feeling and then i'm reminded of the harms and limitations of LLMs vs the ways people talk about it and i keep feeling like no, i'm pretty sure i'm on a position i can feel good about and not just being a fuddy duddy tech is leaving behind
Honestly the very last thing that a lot of people need is an external voice telling them that what they've decided to do is the right thing and giving them justifications for it.
We've known about this effect for 60 years, but the current systems are orders of magnitude more advanced, and we haven't had them long enough to build up the understanding (immunity?) necessary for people to interact with them responsibly.
It's pretty unlikely that this will work out in the medium term as openai doesn't have anything like a monopoly. There's like a dozen companies that can sell the same shit for cheaper and open source models that any asshole can get running on a couple gpus in their barn.
It’s not even the machines for me. AI is a program that will be monetized at some point. Even if it could be built to help people purely, the owners of these programs don’t want to really help folks. They want to help themselves, and ultimately they just want our money, at any cost.
It’ll have lsome uses in computer graphics, audio editing, video games & some boring programming, but I hope anyone who uses it to create normal human expression balks at the price and just sends a three word email instead of an essay on why something needs doing or making a void of meaningless art
If we're lucky they'll panic when they don't immediately meet their unrealistic expectations and pull the typical free to play ad supported bullshit that drags the experience down even further.
I think that's a misreading of what Merritt is saying (namely that her sister uses it *in place of* a therapist, not *in her position as* a therapist), but That Said: yeah I would too
A 20 year old at work today told me that chatgbt would give him the answer to a training powerpoint quiz, I told him that AI is bullshit and when he tried to prove me wrong the AI gave him the wrong answer lmao
Using ChatGPT as a therapist is quite a thing to unpack. On one hand there are so many issues with ChatGPT itself, and it certainly isn't designed to offer therapy itself. On the other hand, the US Healthcare system is broken, and that includes mental healthcare as well.
When I went to the career center at my college to have help putting together a resumé, they walked me through using chatgpt to help make one and I felt disgusting the entire time. I ended up disregarding the entire thing, and put one together myself just using the template they gave before using gpt
As a hiring manager I recently received a cover letter that was obviously created with AI. It missed the mark so much it was hilarious. I feel bad for the person who submitted it but AI wrote the cover letter for a job with similar words that were in the job title but with very different meanings.
Yeah I just don’t understand how people can have so much faith in ai for stuff like that. Reading through the stuff gpt wrote for my resumé felt like a lot of false aggrandizement. There’s presenting something in a positive way, and then there’s lying lol.
I had a 30+ minute convo with a guy who was treating it like the oracle at delphi, absolutely batshit insane. Dumb people are powerless in the face of a LLM that approximates someone smarter than them.
That's very dangerous and you should discourage it as much as humanly possible. Your sister is going to be as vulnerable as she would be with a human therapist, but with "someone" with no morals or ethics whatsoever.
My son was recently giving me shit for not using it. I played with it when it first came out and couldn’t find a use case for it. He said it has gotten better so I gave it a shot on a work project last week and it lied like a rug. Still can’t find a use for it.
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https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-spiritual-delusions-destroying-human-relationships-1235330175/
I like to think of all these products and websites as middlemen for reality at this point.
quantum quantum quantum
Even adopters don't wanna pay to have AI. And why would they? It sucks. OpenAI spent $9 billion to lose $5 billion in 2024, and they're poised to lose more.