In psychotherapists vs. ChatGPT showdown, the latter wins, new study finds

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• jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  That is one bullshit headline.

  TLDR: People correctly discerned that written responses were from an “AI” chatbot slightly less often than they correctly discerned that responses were from a psychotherapist.

  “AI” cannot replace a therapist and hasn’t “won” squat.

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  • Goun@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Holy shit, thanks for saving us the click. Wtf

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  • asap@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    A bit disingenuous not to mention the following paragraph:

    Further, participants in most cases preferred ChatGPT’s take on the matter at hand. That was based on five factors: whether the response understood the speaker, showed empathy, was appropriate for the therapy setting, was relevant for various cultural backgrounds, and was something a good therapist would say.

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    • PapstJL4U@lemmy.world [bot] ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Patients explaining they liked what they heared - not if it is correct or relevant to the cause. There is not even a pipeline for escalation, because AIs don’t think.

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  • paradox2011@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You’re doing the lord’s work 🫡

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• potentiallynotfelix@lemmy.fish ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I don’t trust therapists, but I trust OpenAI with my mental state about 100x less.

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• ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Imitating a therapist is not too hard, look up Eliza. Was it good as an actual therapist? Haha, no.

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  • jordanlund@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Or Doctor Sbaitso.

    en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Sbaitso

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• nyan@lemmy.cafe ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Did they compete on providing actual therapy? No? Then this is meaningless.

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• MagicShel@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’ve used AI as a pseudo-therapist. It was kinda surreal. It had some helpful things to say, but there was a whole lot of cheerleading. Like, I appreciate the boost, and telling me how great I am. Then it kept trying to push me into an action plan like it’s selling a Tony Robbin’s book. And it never really challenged me on my representations or perspective except when I was done in myself.

  I get it, when someone comes to you with troubles, try to make them feel better about themselves. But I really have to do a lot of searching to figure out what parts are worth paying attention to and what parts are just hyping me up.

  I definitely would not trust it, but I think it says some useful stuff by accident now and again.

  Maybe it would’ve done better if I’d given it really detailed instructions on how to be a therapist, but if I could do that I could probably give those same instructions to my wife or someone and be better off.

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• cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  From the study

  Using different measures, we then confirmed that responses written by ChatGPT were rated higher than the therapist’s responses suggesting these differences may be explained by part-of-speech and response sentiment. This may be an early indication that ChatGPT has the potential to improve psychotherapeutic processes. We anticipate that this work may lead to the development of different methods of testing and creating psychotherapeutic interventions. Further, we discuss limitations (including the lack of the therapeutic context), and how continued research in this area may lead to improved efficacy of psychotherapeutic interventions allowing such interventions to be placed in the hands of individuals who need them the most.

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• latenightnoir@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Heh

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