Comment by rtkwe
7 days ago
The issue is LLM "therapists" are often actively harmful. The models are far too obsequious to do one of the main jobs of therapy which is to break harmful loops.
7 days ago
The issue is LLM "therapists" are often actively harmful. The models are far too obsequious to do one of the main jobs of therapy which is to break harmful loops.
I've spoken to some non-LLM therapists that have been harmful as well. They still required a waitlist while also being expensive.
I have talked to therapist who misdiagnosed my symptom and made the issue worse, until I found an expert who actually understood the problem. I do wonder if there are statistics out there for these cases.
You're rarely going to get something like the recent rollingstone reports though. The solution is better health coverage and more therapists not giving up and rolling that dice that the machine might agree with the patient (or talk them into thinking) they are indeed the godhead.
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-spi...