4d ago

AI-Fueled Spiritual Delusions Are Destroying Human Relationships

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https://archive.is/eMnzp

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In the near future health insurance companies will be prescribing AI for therapy
- I've heard from many people that they use chatgpt for therapy. They'll even give it chat logs with friends and ask for advice
  
  Damn man, the current trend of AI usage among normies is pretty bleak.
  LLMs are good for summarization and extraction, and even then you better double check their work if it is something that matters. Maybe there are some good uses for coding as well. But to many normies treat it like god or an all knowing thing, when its just sparkling word prediction
  
  There is something i feel in the human condition (or maybe it's a phenomena of capitalist society) that makes us afraid of failure. LLM's sort of provide a safe space where you can't really fail it, and so people would rather go to an LLM with a problem than a real person. And this will probably be exacerbated as everyone tries to present themselves as "perfect"
  
  I think I get what you are saying. A couple years ago I started to use LLMs as a way to bounce off research ideas and hopefully find sources. But ultimately I realized it was detrimental to my actual understanding of the ideas I was trying to brainstorm. If you find yourself using AI heavily for anything I think it will always be detrimental in some way.
  Even summarization, something that LLMs are probably best suited for, if used liberally will have the same effect of only reading headlines every day, sometimes you need to read some stuff all the way through to maintain your brain. I know people that use it for extraction purposes (pulling out specific data from huge reports for instance) and even then it makes a mistake 5% of the time.
  Anything you use AI for you need to make sure you are also using your own human brain for at least some of the time or your brain will atrophy
  
  you need to make sure you are also using your own human brain for at least some of the time or your brain will atrophy
  Hexbear exposed, time to shut down
  
  I've had this personal thought that the diseases all of this is a symptom of are the cults of efficiency and individualism.
  The cult of efficiency, where we aren't allowed to fuck up or not know, we cannot waste too much time looking into things because it eats into time for other tasks.
  The cult of individualism, where having to rely on someone else is a weakness and evidence that you're missing a skill, you must become a homo universalis who can do everything on their own.
  
  The cult of individualism, where having to rely on someone else is a weakness and evidence that you're missing a skill, you must become a homo universalis who can do everything on their own.
  Actually becoming a homo universalis is good IMO. The problem is that capitalism forces us to be turbo-specialized for our position in the division of labour, but demands to pretend to be homo universalis.
  
  I've heard from many people that they use chatgpt for therapy
  I think I've heard people even contemplating that on this bear site
  
  I kind of do that, not chatgpt but a different place when I need to vent or talk about thoughts related to SI since I don't really have anyone to talk about those things and it not really something I can talk to friends about. besides that, just having had a psychiatrist sic police on me along with giving me thousands of dollar of medical debt really made be wary of even talking about any of that stuff. at the very least a chatbot not going to call police on me and I can just journal it out in a way.
  
  I understand, the state of the medical field in the US is absolutely unacceptable

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