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A_norny_mousse@feddit.org ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

You’re missing the most important point here; quoting:

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.

Plus, an AI cannot really have your best interest at heart, plus these sorts of things open up a whole slew of very dytopian scenarios.

OK, you said “capitalism” but that’s way too broad.

Also I find the example of a “mental health emergency” (as in, right now, not tonight or tomorrow) in a remote area, presumably with nobody else around to help, a bit contrived. But OK, in such extremely rare cases - presuming broadband internet still works, and the person in question is savvy enough to use the chatbot - it might be better than nothing.

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NewDayRocks@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
But if you are facing mental health issues and a free or inexpensive AI that is available and doesn’t burden your friends actually helps you, do you really care about your information and being profited from?

Put it this way, if Google was being super transparent with you and said, “we’ll help treat you, and in exchange we use your info to make a few thousand dollars.” Will you the individual say, “no thanks I’d rather pay a few hundred per therapy session instead”?

Even if you hate it, you have to admit it’s hard to say no. Especially if it works.

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- A_norny_mousse@feddit.org ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Another sad aspect of non-socialised healthcare.
  
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narr1@lemmy.ml ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Yeah, well, that’s just, like, your opinion, man. And if you remove the very concept of capital gain from your “important point”, I think you’ll find your point to be moot.

I’m also going to assume you haven’t been in such a situation as I described with the whole mental health emergency? Because I have. At best I went to the emergency and calmed down before ever seeing a doctor, and at worst I was committed to inpatient care (or “the ward” as it’s also known) before I calmed down, taking resources from the treatment of people who weren’t as unstable as I was, a problem which could’ve been solved with a chatbot. And I can assure you there are people who live outside the major metropolitan areas of North America, it isn’t an extremely rare case as you claim.

Anyway, my point stands.

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- A_norny_mousse@feddit.org ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  
  if you remove the very concept of capital gain from your “important point”, I think you’ll find your point to be moot.
  
  Profit or not: How is it OK if your personal data is shared with third and fourth parties? How is it OK that AI allows for manipulating vulnerable people in new and unheard of ways?
  
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