Anyone who trusts an AI therapist needs their head examined
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The fact that this is a viable option because we live in a country with a government that refuses to actually provide for its people, is painfully depressing. AI as your therapist… seriously what the fuck is this timeline? I work in tech and the people constantly blowing AI hot air are not folks you want in charge of the tools for your therapy and wellbeing.
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This assumes all human therapists are ethical, and that all of their offices, notes and data syatems are secure too. All security is porous.
No, it doesn't.
You distrust AI therapists.
You distrust bad therapists.
You do trust good therapists.See? Works just fine.
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No one can afford $2000 bread, well maybe in the great depression
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Depending on who you are an AI chat might just be a less tedious journal which can obviously be better than not journaling, I still find it sorta weird too but the ridicule is unfounded imo.
I imagine at least some of that ridicule stems from this being kind of the exact wrong answer to the big, societal "why is everyone so lonely now?" question.
It's a bit like watching a pack-a-day smoker buy lozenges for their throat or something, as if you're not supposed to think about the cancer.
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No, it doesn't.
You distrust AI therapists.
You distrust bad therapists.
You do trust good therapists.See? Works just fine.
That assumes you can tell and that the best people and processes are flawless which is not true by a wide margin.
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That assumes you can tell and that the best people and processes are flawless which is not true by a wide margin.
are flawless
I cannot help you. You are having a conversation in your head that no one else here is a part of. You gotta come back down to Earth, man.
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It might be 1000% more confidential, but is it effective? Anecdotal evidence doesn't count. For all we know AI therapy could be actively harmful to certain conditions. I'm not sure there's any published studies on this.
afaict the topic of the article seems to be focusing on trust as in privacy and confidentiality
for the discussion i think we can extend trust as in also trusting the ethics and motivation of the company producing the "AI"
imo what this overlooks is that a community or privately made "AI" running entirely offline seems to tick those boxes rather differently.
trusting it to be effective seems to be an entirely different discussion however
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