The first link says that patients can't reliably tell which is the therapist and which is LLM in single messages, which yeah, that's an LLM core competency.
The second is "how 2 use AI 4 therapy" which, there's at least one paper for every field like that.
The last found that they were measurably worse at therapy than humans.
So, yeah, I'm comfortable agreeing that all LLMs are bad therapists, and bad friends too.
Not all humans are good friends and therapists. All LLMS are bad friends and therapists.
> all LLMS are bad friends and therapists.
Is that just your gut feel? Because there has been some preliminary research that suggest it's, at the very least, an open question:
https://neurosciencenews.com/ai-chatgpt-psychotherapy-28415/
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10987499/
https://arxiv.org/html/2409.02244v2
The first link says that patients can't reliably tell which is the therapist and which is LLM in single messages, which yeah, that's an LLM core competency.
The second is "how 2 use AI 4 therapy" which, there's at least one paper for every field like that.
The last found that they were measurably worse at therapy than humans.
So, yeah, I'm comfortable agreeing that all LLMs are bad therapists, and bad friends too.
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I do not think there are any documented cases of LLMs being reasonable friends or therapists so I think it is fair to say that:
> All LLMS are bad friends and therapists
That said it would not surprise me that LLMs in some cases are better than having nothing at all.
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> Is that just your gut feel?
Here's my take further down the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44840311
> Is that just your gut feel?
An LLM is a language model and the gestalt of human experience is not just language.
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That is an extreme claim, what is your source for this?
Absolutes, monastic take... Yeah I imagine not a lot of people seek out your advice.
All humans are not LLMs, why does this constantly get brought up?
> All humans are not LLMs
What a confusing sentence to parse
You wouldn't necessarily know, talking to some of them.