grid11@lemy.nl to Privacy@lemmy.ml · 4 days agoAnyone who trusts an AI therapist needs their head examinedpluralistic.netexternal-linkmessage-square20fedilinkarrow-up1115arrow-down112
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minus-squarederanger@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up22arrow-down3·4 days agoIt might be 1000% more confidential, but is it effective? Anecdotal evidence doesn’t count. For all we know AI therapy could be actively harmful to certain conditions. I’m not sure there’s any published studies on this.
minus-squareganymede@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-21 day agoafaict the topic of the article seems to be focusing on trust as in privacy and confidentiality for the discussion i think we can extend trust as in also trusting the ethics and motivation of the company producing the “AI” imo what this overlooks is that a community or privately made “AI” running entirely offline has the capacity to tick those boxes rather differently. trusting it to be effective is perhaps an entirely different discussion however feeling like you’ve been listened to can be therapeutic. actionable advice is an entirely different matter ofc.
It might be 1000% more confidential, but is it effective? Anecdotal evidence doesn’t count. For all we know AI therapy could be actively harmful to certain conditions. I’m not sure there’s any published studies on this.
afaict the topic of the article seems to be focusing on trust as in privacy and confidentiality
for the discussion i think we can extend trust as in also trusting the ethics and motivation of the company producing the “AI”
imo what this overlooks is that a community or privately made “AI” running entirely offline has the capacity to tick those boxes rather differently.
trusting it to be effective is perhaps an entirely different discussion however
feeling like you’ve been listened to can be therapeutic.
actionable advice is an entirely different matter ofc.