How long until they monetize it with sponsored advice to go sign up for betterhelp or some other dubious online therapist? Dystopian and horrifying.
I mean, betterhelp would probably be an improvement over counseling via hallucinating AI.
OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly
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#32The bigger risk is that these agents actually help with ideation if you know how to get around their safety protocols. I have used it often in my bad moments and when things feel better I am terrified of how critically it helps ideate.
That seems like an obvious problem. Less obvious is, how many people does it meaningfully help, and how big is the impact of redirecting people to a crisis hotline? I’m legitimately unsure. I have talked to the chatbot about psychological issues and it is reasonably well-informed about modern therapeutic practices and can provide helpful responses.
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The president is mentally ill, imagine how it affects the rest of the population.
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#34I talk to ChatGPT about topics I feel society isnt enlightened enough to talk about I feel suicide is heavily misunderstood as well People just copypasta prevention hotlines and turn their minds off from the topic Although people have identified a subset of the population that is just impulsively considering suicide and can be deterred, it doesnt serve the other unidentified subsets who are underserved by merely dist…
Not suicidal myself, but I think I'd be curious to hear from someone suicidal whether it actually worked for them to read "To whomever you are, you are loved!" followed by a massive spam of hotline text.
It always felt the same as one of those spam chumboxes to me. But who am I to say, if it works it works. But does it work? Feels like the purpose of that thing is more for the poster than the receiver.
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
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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Yikes, you can't attack another user like this on HN, regardless of how wrong they are or you feel they are. We ban accounts that post like this, so please don't.
Fortunately, a quick skim through your recent comments didn't turn up anything else like this, so it should be easy to fix. But if you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site to heart, we'd be grateful.
Re: OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly
#36I assume this is to offset the bad PR from the suicide note it wrote for that kid.
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#37I talk to ChatGPT about topics I feel society isnt enlightened enough to talk about I feel suicide is heavily misunderstood as well People just copypasta prevention hotlines and turn their minds off from the topic Although people have identified a subset of the population that is just impulsively considering suicide and can be deterred, it doesnt serve the other unidentified subsets who are underserved by merely dist…
> then where would I talk about that?
Alert: with ChatGPT you're not talking to anyone. It's not a human being.
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are you sure ChatGPT is the solution? It just sounds like another "savior complex" sell spin from tech. 1. Social media -> connection 2. AGI -> erotica 3. Suicide -> prevention All these for engagement (i.e. addiction). It seems like the tech industry is the root cause itself trying to masquerade the problem by brainwashing the population. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45026886
You actually need to add a loop in there between the suicide and erotica steps.
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#40Most people would really benefit from going to the gym.
I'm not trying to downplay serious mental illness as its absolutely real.
For many though just going to the gym several times a week or another form of serious physical exertion can make a world of difference.
Since I started taking the gym seriously again I feel like a new man. Any negative thoughts are simply gone. (The testosterone helps as well)
This is coming from someone that has zero friends and works from home and all my co-workers are offshore. Besides my wife and kids its almost total isolation. Going to the gym though leaves me feeling like I could pluck the sun from the sky.
I am not trying to be flippant here but if you feel down, give it a try, it may surprise you.