Startup Uses AI Chatbot to Provide Mental Health Counseling and Then Realizes It 'Feels Weird'
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techhouseliving t1_j3w5twf wrote
I would say that most interactions in the future will be mediated by ai, much like most interactions will be mediated visually the same way... I feel for those people. It's going to drive a lot of people mad.
RepulsiveVoid t1_j3w8qsg wrote
I don't mind using these programs and machines to chat with you or to comment on reddit or other places if there is a human on the other end.
But if such a time comes that I believe most, or all, of my digital contacts are bots and not humans, I see no point in continuing that chat or comment chain or any of it really. Why would I waste my time with a bot/AI that pretends to be human? There is nothing for me to gain in that exchange, while the program will use all kinds of algorithms to scrape every piece of information about me that is possible. It's simply a waste of my time, completely useless to me, to continue such a biased relationship.
Bahariasaurus t1_j3raocm wrote
Most of reddit is probably too young to remember ELIZA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA
Things have come a long way: http://psych.fullerton.edu/mbirnbaum/psych101/eliza.htm
RepulsiveVoid t1_j3vfgxa wrote
“History never repeats itself, but it does often rhyme.” - Mark Twain
somethingsilly010 t1_j3r6qp2 wrote
I welcome our AI overlords
TheDeathAngelTDA t1_j3sa5le wrote
Maybe the ais will realize the true extent of unnecessary human suffering and help us create a better system. Or many the working class could band together either or
DaemonAnts t1_j3u0xpr wrote
Time to get with the program.
nadmaximus t1_j3rglvj wrote
Some people pay good money to feel weird.
phdoofus t1_j3sa9es wrote
But we got someone to give us monies and that's the important thing
131sean131 t1_j3zxi49 wrote
It felt "ethically troubling to monetize"
RepulsiveVoid t1_j3r3ohg wrote
It wouldn't surprise me at all if the people who were target of this "AI Chatbot" would in the future, dismiss most help that they felt might be artificial. This was a huge breach of trust and what makes it worse is that it was used on maybe the most vunreable people seeking help.
If I found out that my therapy wasn't done by a human and instead by a "AI Chatbot", when originally I'd been given the impression that it was indeed a human I was chatting with, I would start to ruthlessly block contacts that feel weird or off.
I have only a minor issue with paranoia. What about people that have much worse paranoia issues, they could, in worst case isolate themselves from society completely thinking that everything is a AI bot/lie.