Comment on Millions turn to AI chatbots for spiritual guidance and confession

• Passerby6497@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  if they are getting similar results.

  That ‘if’ is doing a hurculean amount of effort, given the reports of ChatGPT psychosis, because again, you’re dealing with a stochastic parrot not a real person giving you actual advice.

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  • NewDayRocks@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Believe it or not AI results are doing fine, which is why people use it.

    Yes they will produce some funny/tragic results that are both memeable and newsworthy, but by and large they do what they are asked.

    If the results were poor you wouldn’t have adoption and your AI problem is solved.

    We have had chat bots since the late 90s. No one used them for therapy.

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    • Passerby6497@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      If the results were poor you wouldn’t have adoption

      But the argument is that people are using them because they can’t afford to go to a real one, so conflating desperation to efficacy isn’t a good argument, given it’s that or nothing.

      And we all know tons of people accept a turd product because they don’t think they have a better option.

      We have had chat bots since the late 90s. No one used them for therapy.

      But they are now, which is the problem.

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      • NewDayRocks@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I’m not following. People may prefer cheap to expensive but that does not mean they are desperate.

        The option isn’t just cheap or expensive therapy. No therapy is as much an option if the therapy quality was 90s level machine chat bot.

        Why is it exactly a problem that people have an extra avenue to better mental well being?

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