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A profound relational revolution is underway, not orchestrated by tech developers but driven by users themselves. Many of the 400 million weekly users of ChatGPT are seeking more than just assistance with emails or information on food safety; they are looking for emotional support.

“Therapy and companionship” have emerged as two of the most frequent applications for generative AI globally, according to the Harvard Business Review. This trend marks a significant, unplanned pivot in how people interact with technology.

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[-] skrlet13@feddit.cl 5 points 2 weeks ago

genAI chatbots are so predatory

[-] Opinionhaver@feddit.uk 4 points 2 weeks ago

LLMs have no intentions. They only do what the user asks them to.

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[-] Flickerby@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The amount of sexism in this comment section is...unnerving. Does a community exist for male identifying people to talk and share their troubles in a non hostile space? If it doesn't I'll make one.

Edit: No idea what I'm doing but !Reprieve@lemmy.zip

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[-] Geodad@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Some people would rather yalk to something they know is fake than to talk to a person who may or may not be.

[-] chunes@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

And it's awesome. Men aren't allowed by others to show weakness. AI therapy genuinely helps a lot.

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[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 weeks ago

Revolution my ass. LLM make for poor psychologists.

[-] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Well. Not very different from "opening up" to hashish fumes or Tarot cards or Chinese fortune cookies.

And robotic therapists are a common enough component of classical science fiction, not even all dystopian.

For the record, I agree that the results suck. Everything around us is falling apart, have you noticed?

You can do more with less with 1% deadly error rate, and you can do much more with much less with 10% deadly error rate. Military and economic logic says that the latter wins . Which means the latter wins evolution.

And we (that is, our parents and grandparents) have built a nice world intended for low error rates, because they didn't think such a contradiction between efficiency and correctness will happen, or they thought that it's our job to root out our time's weeds, loosely quoting Tolkien, and they have rooted out theirs as well as they could.

Which means that nice world doesn't survive evolution.

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