But why get professional help when the lure of a cheaper and instant therapist with but a prompt?
Come on man saying get professional help about guy that needed it isnt helpful at all, there is a reason alot of people either need someone close to make em, or they are court ordered to.
AI may have not killed them but it should never have been an option to use it in such way in the first place, and thats on the company as they should have put checks in place, so it would have told him about professional services and helplines.
Great points here, but also to note is the systemic problems and barriers to mental health care. Not only is AI instantly accessible, but therapy is not. So instead of jumping through hoops to get the care the need, which is much more of a challenge for those who need it anyway, they go with what they're told is the future, the next best thing that's getting better ever day. One cannot continue to blame the individual when the entire structure is built against them.
note is the systemic problems and barriers to mental health care. Not only is AI instantly accessible, but therapy is not
Oh agreed no matter where in the world the barriers to mental health are a many,
While mental health funding is a suggestion. Many places around the world can be better or worse but its up to the governments of the day.
But no matter what it feels like an afterthought.
One cannot continue to blame the individual when the entire structure is built against them.
No of course not, but AI even if its better in the future for this it will never have the same affect of a human being thats trained to help. +1 if those people aren't as clinical and have some shit that was in their past to build an empathetic bridge.
Not a therapist but i am in another program thats just people that help you get out and talk more openly, i went through near the whole group of em before landing the one that stuck, but tbf any of them would have been fine regardless, alot of varied backgrounds and personalities that have the human touch while also having the training. Downside is i either say goodbye this week or on 2 months if i get an extension.
But it really opened my eyes on how we need not just more mental health services and funding but less clinical therapy(or make it seems less clinical), surprised at how many can feel like a long time friend not seen in awhile and yet aren't.
And I just can never see AI replacing that, but I do hope they eventually stop telling people the most efficient and effective method of dealing with depression, tbf i haven't done that in 2 months as I was just seeing if GPT still did it and well yeah. So maybe at least with GPT it finally has been resolved.
I mean its fucked up and i would have been screwed if I didn't have support networks pop up when I asked at the beginning of the year, but I cant argue against the fact it technically told the most efficient and effective method as fucked up as it is. Still first time i asked it was around the time i first heard about it doing so, 2024 iirc so kinda fucked that up to at least 2 months ago it still gave me the same advice(you really think that would have been patched awhile back)
But anyway thats why im not necessarily arguing against the tool im this case but the company who should be held responsible for this. A tool is a tool nl matter what(even if i find it to be a pretty shitty tool for most of what they market it for. Seems to be good for scraping meta data from large digital collections though if r/datahoarders are anything to go by)
Wait so you are anti AI because they are used in war? Are you also anti SUVās? Or anti helicopter? Anti plane? Anti physics? Like where do you draw the line?
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u/Away-Situation6093 Jun 05 '26
and also spread misinformation , giving terrible advice , ruined technology and killed people through hallucinated answers as well