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'It cannot provide nuance': UK experts warn AI therapy chatbots are not safe

(www.theguardian.com)
165 points distalx | 2 comments | 10 May 25 15:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.887s | source
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caseyy ◴[11 May 25 00:28 UTC] No.43950190[source]▶
I know many pro-LLM people here are very smart, but sometimes it's wise to heed the words of world-renowned experts on a subject.

Otherwise, you may end up defending this and it's really foolish:

> “Seriously, good for you for standing up for yourself and taking control of your own life,” it reportedly responded to a user, who claimed they had stopped taking their medication and had left their family because they were “responsible for the radio signals coming in through the walls”.

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1. casey2 ◴[11 May 25 08:10 UTC] No.43952241[source]▶
The very fact that the "world class experts" are warning people not to use it means they have already been replaced in most fields that matter.

They didn't feel threatened by systems like cleverbot or GPT-3.5

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2. cmsj ◴[11 May 25 14:28 UTC] No.43954070[source]▶
Congrats, you have trapped yourself in an ideological bubble where nobody can ever tell you that AI is a bad fit for a given application.

Try this on for size: I am not a therapist, but I will happily tell you that a statistical word generating LLM is a truly atrocious substitute for the hard work of a creative, empathetic and caring human being.