I mean… Yeah. That’s why they went to a therapist…
Not sure…
- An AI therapist can already easily handle general good mental advice, such as reducing cognitive load, perspective shifts, alternative methodologies, education of standard mental needs, processes and whatever low-level stuff we can benefit from. 2. hooman therapists are a coin-toss. Most are completely crap and build their business from archaic and/or wrong theories and personal ideology/feelings. 3. whatever flaws AI have now, is going away really really fast.
Hooman therapists cost a lot of money, and a shitload of people won’t get any help at all without AI.
So, I think it is fine. The potential damage is far less than no help at all. Just use a little common sense and don’t take anything as a Gospel - just as when we see hooman therapists.
Please go on. I’m not sure I understand you fully.
By AI head specialist.
This assumes all human therapists are ethical and never make mistakes, and that all of their offices, notes and data syatems are secure too. All security is porous.
selfhosted AI is 1000% more confidential than a human therapist; but stuff like ChatGPT? yeah stay away from those
It might be 1000% more confidential, but is it effective? Anecdotal evidence doesn’t count. For all we know AI therapy could be actively harmful to certain conditions. I’m not sure there’s any published studies on this.
afaict the topic of the article seems to be focusing on trust as in privacy and confidentiality
for the discussion i think we can extend trust as in also trusting the ethics and motivation of the company producing the “AI”
imo what this overlooks is that a community or privately made “AI” running entirely offline has the capacity to tick those boxes rather differently.
trusting it to be effective is perhaps an entirely different discussion however
feeling like you’ve been listened to can be therapeutic.
actionable advice is an entirely different matter ofc.
Depending on who you are an AI chat might just be a less tedious journal which can obviously be better than not journaling, I still find it sorta weird too but the ridicule is unfounded imo.
From a privacy perspective it’s likely terrible/ terrifying but given the majority of people are already transparent for the most part, they are at least taking some real world value for their increased transparency.
