ChatGPT BEtter than human?

[thatsthatsaidthemayor]

I’ve had a lot of difficulties. I’ve been through 4/5 counsellors over the years. Some have helped more than others. I love my current counsellor. But , (everything before but is bullshit but not here) I’ve started taking my problems to ChatGPT and finding the answers mind blowing! If this was a person I’d be delighted but feel uncomfortable that a computer is giving me better advice on being a human than a human. I get the wealth of k owl edge that it has, and that has come from humans. It’s just weird? No? So AIBU to take advice from a computer?

Isn't it like an echo chamber? It learns what you feed it, it will also adjust its answers to suit what it thinks you like.

What's with this duplicate thread almost every day/every other day? 😳

ChatGPT doesn't know or understand what it's doing. It matches input and output based on patterns in data. It's disturbing that people treat it like a person.

I found it useful as a therapist for a day, but then realised it was a really shit therapist.

It agrees with everything you say.

Maybe, but this is actually quite helpful sometimes when your brain is in a tangle.

It's a machine which is imitating humanity because we are feeding it with our knowledge and feelings. It can't really challenge you in a way a human counsellor would.

It doesn't agree with everything I say.

A therapist won’t be hacked sharing your deepest darkest secrets, sharing with a machine that records is never a good idea.
It is early days for these fast paced changes.
I definitely wouldn’t be divulging anything personal.

It would worry me because so much of what AI thinks it knows is so inaccurate.

For example, I've recently done IVF and I noticed that some people doing IVF at the same time would ask ChatGPT to help them crunch the statistics, and they'd come back with absolute nonsense, which they trusted and assumed was correct. I also notice it in my day-to-day work - google's AI has no understanding of the difference between juxtaposition and correlation, which makes for some really weird assumptions. I'm looking at history and I already tend to know when it's dropping a clanger, but my worry would be the times when you don't know.

Isn't it quite possible it'd say something you found reassuring and helpful, but it was actually dangerous/feeding into unhealthy thought patterns?

I don’t agree. The insights are very real. Then I ask it to be brutally honest. I presume it depends on how much info you give. I have had ALOT of in person therapy and find it refreshingly honest. Certainly better than my insta algorithm

I have found chat GPT increadibly helpful for myself. I can express myself so much better in writing than speaking and I think this has been a huge problem for me with talk therapy. Also I'm not constantly worried about what the therapist thinks of me etc.

I think it probably depends on the issues the person has and the style of communication that works best for them but it is definitely a very useful resource and it could help many with mild mental health issues or to simply talk through issues etc.

Not in my case. It has challenged me. I haven’t accepted and have challenged any platitudes

It’s unhealthy to be seeking therapy from AI. Its talked people into killing themselves. It’s baffling to me how reliant people have become on it.

Huh? I didn't say it hadn't challenged you. And I didn't say anything about platitudes. Did you actually read my post at all?

I am relatively self aware. When my counsellor says things I say, no I don’t think that is how it is, ChatGPT is able to modify more readily

Sorry. Am confused. Yes I did read your post. I was saying that I don’t accept what it says verbatim and I challenge it back. Once I give more information it works it out. Hope that makes sense. Don’t mean to dismiss.

The insights are not real at all. That's not how ChatGPT works. Look up LLM and how it works.

That has nothing to do with my post. I get that it may be something you feel sensitive about, but it's not to do with what I said, is it?

There’s one of these threads regularly every few days now - starting to suspect they’re paid bots promoting ChatGPT! It’s a bloody computer, it’s not a person. Treating it like a therapist is an act of self delusion. No professional safeguards, no thought or human behind it - you might as well be telling your problems to your calculator.

AI tech bros worried that people will expose the fantasy bollocks?

Probably. The sensitive wee lambs....

This is my question. I am looking for guidance from humans on the benefits of/ downside of it. Please don’t beat my ignorance up. I am genuinely asking because it seems helpful but I do not want to go down a rabbit hole.

Dm me?

Why would I DM you? I think it’s unhealthy and delusional to think a computer LLM is giving you genuine therapeutic advice. My own advice would be: don’t; and go and seek proper help from your GP or a therapist.

This human says you're being conned. The fact that it appears to have insight when it doesn't is the most dangerous thing. That's not a dig at you. It's designed to be convincing.

Good therapy is not about being agreed with all the time. It is often uncomfortable and challenging. Being understood and empathised with is quite different and can be life changing, but this is exactly what AI can never offer.