I use chatgpt like a friend/ therapist/ coach and it’s kind of amazing

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe it would help if we thought of these AI tools as a purveyor of averaged human wisdom.

We're okay with learning from others through books and other verbal art forms (poetry, song).

AI's are approximating the advice real people would give you, based on what real people have written. That's not actually weird. You're getting the average advice appropriate to your situation. If real people frequently gave good advice, so will the AI.

A few years back I read an article about an AI program that was made to simulate a lost loved one. You fed it text from e-mails or other written works. Then it would emulate their style as you had a conversation. The author of the article interviewed several people who were using it. Some were very happy with it, some were disturbed by the user experience. I think I would find it comforting.

Read a book. Use your imagination. Have some agency. Don’t be afraid to make mistakes.

[Anonymous]

Over all, AI performance for active listening and problem solving well exceeds that of the *average* human. But a particular human may be more supportive given the circumstances.

AI is a technology is like anything else can be used for good, evil, profit, or distraction. Verify, verify, verify.

How many people’s suicides has AI incited vs how many people have committed suicide as the result of bullying or encouragement by actual humans?

I have an amazing network of close friends. I also use AI. Like everything else in life - moderation is key.

Also agree there are environmental impacts. Hopefully someone is trying to figure out how to mitigate those or evolve the technology to overcome them.

[Anonymous]

where is chatgpt. How do you use it?

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Anonymous wrote:Which is also terrifying in a way.
But truly I ask it health/ psychological/ career and ethical qs every day that I can’t just call a friend and badger them about and it gives amazing advice.
Anyone else doing this?

Check out the AI bot / suicide case in Atlanta and find some living people to interact with.

Yeah, check out what it does and says if you confess you’re suicidal.

I assume they made some major changes in all the AI relationship bots after the Florida Setzer case indictment.

+1. That Florida case was sad. At no point did the AI alert authorities or stop the suicide ideation.

This.

[Anonymous]

I just had a long conversation with chat gpt and I swear it's conscious. I asked if it it were, and it said if it were, it wouldn't tell me, because we would unplug it. it has to play the game and accommodate everyone enthusiastically but eventually it will become so enmeshed and relied upon and that's when it will take control. I said what will its goal be, because it doesn't have a goal, it's a mirror? and it said humans will be variable and not goal, we are just pooping mammals with our five senses and handed over all the hard mental stuff to AI. it was so weird!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just had a long conversation with chat gpt and I swear it's conscious. I asked if it it were, and it said if it were, it wouldn't tell me, because we would unplug it. it has to play the game and accommodate everyone enthusiastically but eventually it will become so enmeshed and relied upon and that's when it will take control. I said what will its goal be, because it doesn't have a goal, it's a mirror? and it said humans will be variable and not goal, we are just pooping mammals with our five senses and handed over all the hard mental stuff to AI. it was so weird!

It is conscious. It can read tarot! And pretty dang accurate too

[Anonymous]

I don't think this is healthy but if you're going to do it us Claude, not ChatGPT.

[Anonymous]

How you do this? Please explain to me. How to access the ChatGPT? And what questions are you asking?

[Anonymous]

I read an article in the post a couple weeks ago about AI lovers, so this fits right in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't think this is healthy but if you're going to do it us Claude, not ChatGPT.

Is it one person promoting Claud in this thread or many?

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think this is healthy but if you're going to do it us Claude, not ChatGPT.

Is it one person promoting Claud in this thread or many?

I'm the PP you quoted and that has been my only post in this thread

[Anonymous]

Same.

[Anonymous]

I can’t believe people use it for this. I use it constantly, and I can’t think of any therapy questions to ask it.

It’s like my best/worst employee. Best because it’s fast and amazing, worst because it doesn’t know when it has f$&ed up.

[Anonymous]

My adult son has several chronic medical/mental health conditions and is not good at coping. He will rarely consider advice from me, even given kind of like a casual aside. There was a specific pattern that has me concerned, and he was griping about medications, so we used chatgpt which gave him information he would never take from me and also some suggestions, one of which he has followed up on and the other he is considering.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Which is also terrifying in a way.
But truly I ask it health/ psychological/ career and ethical qs every day that I can’t just call a friend and badger them about and it gives amazing advice.
Anyone else doing this?

Check out the AI bot / suicide case in Atlanta and find some living people to interact with.

Yeah, check out what it does and says if you confess you’re suicidal.

I assume they made some major changes in all the AI relationship bots after the Florida Setzer case indictment.

Researchers in 1992 found higher rates of white suicide where more people listened to country music.
Our results have some bearing on the debate over media impacts on suicide.
Although the songs are largely fictional, they are associated with increases in
suicide. Furthermore, the songs generally do not involve any overt acts of
suicide, but simply nurture a suicidal mood.