Raw LLM Responses

Thank you for this contribution. I really appreciate reading your insights into this. Do you think the problems you present here could be solveable with some adjustments or development of some specialized AI-model to assist regular therapy? From my own experience and readings others' there are some people who engage with AI-assistant therapy in a really unhealthy way where the AI placates the user and acts in sycophantic ways, validating self-destructive, harmful and negative beliefs, patterns and behavior. They migth also use it as a replacement for making actual effort to form real human connections when possible - a crutch as you put it well. I definitely agree with you that there is a certain segment on here, with an unhealthy relationship to their AI that deny their unhealthy usage of it, and might try to get the AI to validate that view, to further cement them into this idea that people are unjustly "hating". I also agree, that I would not feel comfortable with a private company providing the AI-models for therapeutic use, at least not unless they were under strict governmental regulation or control (I am an EU-citizen, so stability of and trust in these institutions might be different from the US). However, I do not think banning these models all together will be the solution. Many people are in fact getting a lot of healthy and profound growth and healing from these models, and I do believe they are able to be utilized in these ways, consistenly. Currently it can be very challenging and demanding on the user to keep the models to this goal and way of funcitoning, and many people seem to either not realize they have created a toxic and harmful "therapy" space with the AI or are actively shaping the AI to become a sycophantic yes-man that does more harm than good as a therapist. As a sidenote, some people might not be able to attend therapy for several reasons, often economic. I am unfamiliar with how your healthcare system and social security network