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Worked great for me. Big recommend. "Cured" is mostly an unspecifiable state, and while certainly there's lots still wrong with me, I am healed far beyond my expectations at the outset, so increment your count by one.
Cured would mean you are healed . No more therapeutics , no more abnormalities
> "more than 6 in 10 people declare they already use AI for mental health questions. 42% of them almost always follow the advice it gives them." If these numbers were "of people who regularly use GenAI chat tools" then I'd be surprised it was quite so high already, but not shocked and would find it completely believable. But this seems to be "of all people surveyed", which I'm rather skeptical of - unless their sampl…
I haven't done it yet due to privacy concerns, but I would totally do it with a private local model that's as intelligent as current frontier models and is not sycophantic and perhaps is finetuned on the psychology literature. My reasoning is that, if therapy is a well-understood science, then I trust a big finetuned LLM more than a run-of-the-mill human therapist. I will not be able to afford a Harvard trained psych…
The problem is that all the frontier models tend to be more sycophantic when confronted with emotional support issues.
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Of course, it's impossible to know for sure what was LLM processed, but your posts are getting classified that way and, on inspection, this does seem justified.
We tend to ban new accounts that post like this, but I don't want to ban you because https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48310559 sounds like you have interesting contributions to make ("I work with vehicle specification data daily."), which is great! Just please write any text that you post to HN by hand.
I recently had to do a very hated, very tedious, very long, very boring task at work and I asked Claude to hype me up and give me a pep talk to conquer the task and it really did a great job. Then I got nervous if IT reads our prompts and felt very sheepish if they would be seeing my asking it that.
This is connecting to another commenter's idea that AI can be sort of a stand-in for journaling.
If you have baseline epistemic hygiene there's nothing wrong with using an LLM for advice. If you have baseline epistemic hygeine you'd also recognized this as a B2B sales pitch: Axa sell group health, employee-assistance, and corporate wellbeing products.
Fancy way to say conformist ?
> "more than 6 in 10 people declare they already use AI for mental health questions. 42% of them almost always follow the advice it gives them." If these numbers were "of people who regularly use GenAI chat tools" then I'd be surprised it was quite so high already, but not shocked and would find it completely believable. But this seems to be "of all people surveyed", which I'm rather skeptical of - unless their sampl…
I recently had to do a very hated, very tedious, very long, very boring task at work and I asked Claude to hype me up and give me a pep talk to conquer the task and it really did a great job. Then I got nervous if IT reads our prompts and felt very sheepish if they would be seeing my asking it that.
Heh. Sometimes when I'm stuck at work and feeling unmotivated/catch myself procrastinating, I'll write out my thoughts in my OneNote notebook that I take all work notes in. I do kinda cringe about the idea of IT reading those notes sometimes, but oh well, and it's helped a lot. This is connecting to another commenter's idea that AI can be sort of a stand-in for journaling.
> "more than 6 in 10 people declare they already use AI for mental health questions. 42% of them almost always follow the advice it gives them." If these numbers were "of people who regularly use GenAI chat tools" then I'd be surprised it was quite so high already, but not shocked and would find it completely believable. But this seems to be "of all people surveyed", which I'm rather skeptical of - unless their sampl…
This is almost certainly from an online panel survey of people who are paid to take surveys, which is a mini-industry in itself, people try to make a living taking as many as they can for a few cents. The people who fill these out are completely unrepresentative of the general population and quite a few are probably having their openclaw fill it out for them.
If you have baseline epistemic hygiene there's nothing wrong with using an LLM for advice. If you have baseline epistemic hygeine you'd also recognized this as a B2B sales pitch: Axa sell group health, employee-assistance, and corporate wellbeing products.
Despite progress in natural sciences and tech, the answer to what's the good life is still up for judgment and values, it's not some neutral factual thing that simply falls out of AI training. Without fine tuning, supervised and RLHF, it could just as much role play a deranged psycho giving out life advice. To the extent that it isn't doing that, it's just adhering to whatever the company thought will land them in the least (legal and media) trouble. They had no way of actually tying it to life outcomes. It's more about what the user will like best in the moment. Which is a lot of affirmation and glazing. This is not unique to AI though, self help books can have the same failure mode especially when picked based on what feels nice to read.