[ExI] Chatgpt is replacing therapists

[William Flynn Wallace]

Therapy with a psychologist is expensive and can go on for years.
It is obvious why people want a quicker and cheaper solution.

BillK    I foresee lawsuite along the line of: practicing medicine without
a license   bill w

On Wed, May 24, 2023 at 9:30 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> ...> On Behalf Of BillK via extropy-chat
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> People Are Using ChatGPT in Place of Therapy—What Do Mental Health Experts
> Think?
> By Julia Landwehr     Published on May 13, 2023
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> https://www.health.com/chatgpt-therapy-mental-health-experts-weigh-in-7488513
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> Quote:
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> >...This advice, however, is worrisome to healthcare providers who focus
> on mental health.
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> >...Therapy with a psychologist is expensive and can go on for years.
> It is obvious why people want a quicker and cheaper solution.
>
> BillK
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> Hi BillK, such a dilemma.  There are plenty of people who could benefit
> from a professional therapist who are nowhere near being able to afford
> it.  In some cases governments pay, but we in the states are quickly
> approaching the time when government cannot afford anything, not even what
> it already bought.  That means the choice for a lot of people is ChatGPT as
> a therapist or no therapist.
>
> Those who can afford a professional psychologist: good for you, go forth,
> do it.  For those who cannot, we might suppose ChatGPT is better than
> nothing, so long as you keep in mind you are mostly talking to yourself.
> That might be OK to do that, not necessarily a problem.  But... maybe a
> problem.
>
> Ja I know that's a wishy washy answer, but I was a witness when Eliza came
> along over 40 years ago and we heard the same thing then.  Perhaps we
> should experiment with GPT ourselves, posing as people who need therapy?  I
> have used ExI-chat as a kind of therapy for over 25 years, but never did
> get cured.
>
> spike
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