Lembot_0004@discuss.online 2 months ago
Chatexperts demand you to bring their money to them, not to some almost free LLM alternatives that in many cases would be quite effective.
Lembot_0004@discuss.online 2 months ago
Chatexperts demand you to bring their money to them, not to some almost free LLM alternatives that in many cases would be quite effective.
Dojan@pawb.social 2 months ago
Quite effective at what? Because it certainly isn’t therapy.
huquad@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
The AI chatbots are extremely effective therapists. However, they’re only graded on how long they can keep people talking.
Dojan@pawb.social 2 months ago
LLMs are not effective therapists, because they’re not therapists. They cannot treat anyone.
Lembot_0004@discuss.online 2 months ago
Not all “therapists” know what they’re doing, not all people need actual “therapy”, for some a little chat will suffice. The world is a complicated thing. Only one thing is almost always true – never believe anyone who talks about competitors.
jj4211@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You might as well talk to yourself than a chatbot, or read some stories.
Having an overly agreeable puree of language dispensed to you in place of actual conversation with you is neither healthy nor meaningfully engaging.
Conversation is valuable because it is an actual external perspective. LLM chatbots are designed as echo chambers. They have their uses but conversation for the sake of conversation is not one of them.
Perspectivist@feddit.uk 2 months ago
They’re designed to generate natural sounding language. It’s a tool. What you put in is what you get out.
Dojan@pawb.social 2 months ago
If all you need is a chat, then go find someone flesh and blood to talk to.
Perspectivist@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Just pull yourself up by your bootstraps, right?
Lembot_0004@discuss.online 2 months ago
If you just need to get to point A, then go find some flesh and blood transportation system: a horse, for example.