Comment by andrewflnr
10 days ago
They're in an impossible situation they created themselves and inflict on the rest of us. Forgive us if we don't shed any tears for them.
10 days ago
They're in an impossible situation they created themselves and inflict on the rest of us. Forgive us if we don't shed any tears for them.
Sure - so is Google Chrome for abetting them with a browser, and Microsoft for not using their Windows spyware to call suicide hotline.
I don't empathize with any of these companies, but I don't trust them to solve mental health either.
False equivalence; a hammer and a chatbot are not the same. Browsers and operating systems are tools designed to facilitate actions, not to give mental health opinions on free-text inquiries. Once it starts writing suicide notes you don’t get to pretend it’s a hammer anymore.
I think the distinction is a bit more subtle than "designed to facilitate actions", which you could argue also applies to an LLM. But a browser is a conduit for ideas from elsewhere or from its user. An LLM... well, kind of breaks the categorization of conduit vs originator, but that's sufficient to show the equivalence is false.