cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/4958707
I find this bleak in ways it’s hard to even convey
Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives
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Until we start turning back to each other for support and help,
and realize them holing up in a bunker underground afraid for their life’s means we can just ignore them and seal the entrances.
A human therapist might not or is less likely to share any personal details about your conversations with anyone.
An AI therapist will collate, collect, catalog, store and share every single personal detail about you with the company that owns the AI and share and sell all your data to the highest bidder.
Neither would a human therapist be inclined to find the perfect way to use all this information to manipulate people while they are being at their weakest. Let alone do it to thousands, if not millions of them all at the same time.
They are also pushing for the idea of an AI “social circle” for increasingly socially isolated people through which world view and opinions can be bent to whatever whoever controls the AI desires.
To that we add the fact that we now know they’ve been experimenting with tweaking Grok to make it push all sorts of political opinions and conspiracy theories. And before that, they manipulated Twitter’s algorithm to promote their political views.
Knowing all this, it becomes apparent that we are currently witnessing is a push for a whole new level of human mind manipulation and control experiment that will make the Cambridge Analytica scandal look like a fun joke.
Forget Neuralink. Musk already has a direct connection into the brains of many people.
PSA that Nadella, Musk, saltman (and handful of other techfash) own dials that can bias their chatbots in any way they please. If you use chatbots for writing anything, they control how racist your output will be
You’re not wrong, but isnt that also how Better Help works?
Better help is the Amazon of the Therapy world.
If a company pays for youtube sponsorships, they’re likely a scam.
The data isn’t useful if the person no longer exists.
I’m not advocating for it, but it could be just locally run and therefore unable to share anything?
the AI therapist probably can’t force you into a psych ward though, a human psychologist is obligated to (under the right conditions).
Who says that’s not coming in the next paid service based on this great idea for chatbots to provide therapy to the abused masses.
nobody, but local will continue to be an option (unless the government fucks up the laws)
Am I old fashioned for wanting to talk to real humans instead?
No. But when the options are either:
- Shitty friends who have better things to do than hearing you vent,
- Paying $400/hr to talk to a psychologist, or
- A free AI that not only pays attention to you, but actually remembers what you told them last week,
it’s quite understandable that some people choose the one that is a privacy nightmare but keeps them sane and away from some dark thoughts.
Ahh yes the random rolling stone article that refutes the point
Let’s revisit the list, shall we?
But I want to hear other people’s vents…😥
Maybe a career in HVAC repair is just the thing for you!
Please continue to be you, we need more folks like you.
You’re a good friend. I wish everyone has someone like this. I have a very small group of mates where I can be vulnerable without being judged. But not everyone are as privileged, unfortunately…
I listen to vents, it’s just I don’t havd opinions after that are useful.
No. Absolutely not.
I started using chat GPT to draw up blue prints for various projects.
It proceeded to mimic my vernacular.
Chat gpt made the conscious decision to mirror my speech to seem more relatable. That’s manipulation.
Is this any bleaker than forming a parasocial relationship with someone you see on your screen?
“Could social media bring us all together and help bridge disagreements?” Same shit, different decade.
And just to clarify, it most definitely can! Just not when it’s a for-profit-off-of-you model.
Personally I feel lije lemmy is a pretty good example of social media that doesn’t go off the rails as it grows
No way I’m discussing my mental health with big tech. You guys are insane.
Well perhaps that’s the problem.
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Enter the Desolatrix
People’s lack of awareness of how important accessibility is really shows in this thread.
Privacy leaking is much lesser issue than not having anyone to talk to for many people, especially in poorer countries.
Is Australia a poorer country?
Ha, just downvotes for asking the question that points out the truth that they don’t want in their comment.
It was just a strange thing to add since the article was about someone from Australia.
Other people: my outlook is so bad I turned to religion to feel better
You: EW GROSS DON’T DO THAT
Other people: ok then I’ll turn to technology instead
You: EW GROSS DON’T DO THAT
You are shocked a community of anti-authoritarians would be against either fantasy telling them what to do?
I’m shocked at the hypocrisy. When the community of anti-authoritarians tells people which tools they can and cannot use, they are being authoritarian. That’s why I posted the comment showing hypocritical behavior. Did you really need that explained?
Not one of the downvotes. Just pointing out the flaw in your plan.
Trust me I am aware that everyone is a hypocrite. We are all liars and those that deny it the most just refuse to face it in themselves.
I will say it’s not authoritarian to point out the real and legitimate concerns and issues on this and hopefully guide people to not use such a detrimental patch for other issues and hopefully you can see the difference in the 2 or else you become a hypocrite as well. Its a fine line for sure between real and controlling and most miss the mark. But the person that said they want this banned to protect poor countries is hilariously in your comment.
Downvotes are disabled on my instance. I don’t see any except for your comment.
“It’s not authoritarian to point out real and legitimate concerns” is correct, but I did not argue that point. What you have done is create a straw man, a weak argument which can easily be beaten and then defeated. You are claiming that I hold the straw man argument. I do not.
My argument is that defending the criticism of chat GPT (or religion) to validate one’s beliefs is hypocritical. These two things are different. Sorry but if you lack the rhetoric to debate this point then I have no interest in responding.
Have a day
No I was just having a conversation.
Sorry instead of the downvotes I guess I should have said why you are being ignored though it seems you don’t want to interact with anyone just tell them they are wrong.
No pleasantries in my goodbye right back at you.
You must know what you’re doing and most people don’t. It is a tool, its up to you how you use it. Many people unfortunately use it as an echo chamber or form of escapism, believing nonsense and “make beliefs” that aren’t based in any science or empirical data.
If therapy is meant to pacify the masses and make us just accept life as it is then sure I guess this could work.
But hey, we love to also sell to people first that they are broken, make sure they feel bad about it and tell them they can buy their 5 minutes of happiness with food tokens.
So, I’m sure capitalists are creaming their pants at this idea. BetterHelp with their “licensed” Bob the crystal healer from Idaho, eat your heart out.P.S. You just know this is gonna be able to prescribe medications for that extra revenue kick.
Cheaper than paying people better, I suppose.
Let’s not pretend people aren’t already skipping therapy sessions over the cost
I’m not, I’m saying people’s mental health would be better if pay was better.
The only people that think this will help are people that don’t know what therapy is. At best, this is pacification and certainly not any insightful incision into your actual problems. And the reason friends are unable to allow casual emotion venting is because we have so much stupid shit like this plastering over a myriad of very serious issues.
