How long until they monetize it with sponsored advice to go sign up for betterhelp or some other dubious online therapist? Dystopian and horrifying.
OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly
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#12Surprised it's so low. There are 800 million users and the typical developed country has around 5±3% of the population[1] reporting at least one notable instance of suicidal feelings per year.
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[1] Anybody concerned by such figures (as one justifiably should be without further context) should note that suicidality in the population is typically the result of their best approximation of the rational mind attempting to figure out an escape from a consistently negative situation under conditions of very limited information about alternatives, as is famously expressed in the David Foster Wallace quote on the topic.
The phenomenon usually vanishes after gaining new, previously inaccessible information about potential opportunities and strategies.
Re: OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly
#13Surprised it's so low. There are 800 million users and the typical developed country has around 5±3% of the population[1] reporting at least one notable instance of suicidal feelings per year. . [1] Anybody concerned by such figures (as one justifiably should be without further context) should note that suicidality in the population is typically the result of their best approximation of the rational mind attempting t…
Why assume any of the information in this article is factual? Is there any indication any of it was verified by anyone who does not have a financial interest in "proving" a foregone conclusion? The principal author of this does not even have the courage to attach their name to it.
Re: OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly
#14Surprised it's so low. There are 800 million users and the typical developed country has around 5±3% of the population[1] reporting at least one notable instance of suicidal feelings per year. . [1] Anybody concerned by such figures (as one justifiably should be without further context) should note that suicidality in the population is typically the result of their best approximation of the rational mind attempting t…
Why assume any of the information in this article is factual? Is there any indication any of it was verified by anyone who does not have a financial interest in "proving" a foregone conclusion? The principal author of this does not even have the courage to attach their name to it.
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#16I always know I have to step back when ChatGPT stops telling me "now you're on the right track!" and starts talking to me like my therapist. "I can tell you're feeling strongly right now..."
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#18> It is estimated that more than one in five U.S. adults live with a mental illness (59.3 million in 2022; 23.1% of the U.S. adult population). https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/mental-illness Most people don't understand just how mentally unwell the US population is. Of course there are one million talking to ChatGPT about suicide weekly. This is not a surprising stat at all. It's just a question of what to…
This stat is for AMI, for any mental disorder ranging from mild to severe. Anyone self-reporting a bout of anxiety or mild depression qualifies as a data point for mental illness. For suicide ideation the SMI stat is more representative.
There are 800 million weekly active users on ChatGPT. 1/800 users mentioning suicide is a surprisingly low number, if anything.
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#19...on how many users tell it such things, to be precise; no doubt there are plenty of people "pentesting" it.
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