Comment by drillsteps5
7 days ago
Nobody in the right mind is using cloud LLMs for "therapy", it's all done with local LLMs.
Latest local models that run on consumer-grade hardware can likely provide "good enough" resemblance of communication with human and offer situation-dependent advice.
Which btw is not a therapy in any way shape or form, but a way to think things through and see what various options are.
> Nobody in the right mind is using cloud LLMs for "therapy", it's all done with local LLMs.
"Nobody with a working heart uses the cloud-based automatic heart transplant machine!"
To be honest, based on my personal experience with smaller models running on local consumer-grade hardware, I am more worried about the quality and therefore someone's mental health than privacy. So many small models can't even answer the exact question as the query gets more complex.
"Nobody in their right mind.."
Um, did you forget we were talking about therapy? :)
ok I guess I meant to say "should NOT be using cloud LLM". You know, common sense and everything.
Are you kidding?? Not everyone is involved with tech and most people don't know what "the cloud" even means. It's some abstract thing to most people, and they simply don't care where anything is processed, so long as they get the answer they were hoping for. And most people do not set up LLMs locally. I'm not sure what universe you live in, but it seems vastly different than the one I live in. People in my universe unknowingly and happily give over all their most private data to "the cloud", sometimes with severe repercussions - all the leaked celebrity nudes easily prove that.