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ChatGPT-5 offers dangerous advice to mentally ill people, psychologists warn
(www.theguardian.com)
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I'm sorry but why the hell did anyone think going to AI to help with mental health was ever a good idea?
It is about as useful as asking ChatGPT to pretend to be your dead grandmother or other relative to bring you comfort. It just doesn't fucking work!
Are people undergoing mental health crises known for always making good, rational decisions?
Because an actual professional has 2 months of delays for an initial appointment and charges €80 a session? Also social stigma of consulting ? Especially for males… At least these are my top 3 for not going to a licensed professional. So I personally understand, to an extent, those persons.
If you get a stigma from going to somebody who’s job is to help you but not from asking the black box of plagiarism then we are already too far gone.
Those are very much unrelated issues. What’s the relation with plagiarism and the very likely inaccurate / incorrect response on this topic? Not even mentioning that a lot of times an imperfect tool or solution is better that no solution.
I’m not sure what part you aren’t understanding. The whole article is about how the imperfect tool is specifically doing more harm than good.
And my point is on explaining the reason driving persons to those models, not excusing anything but you seem not to grasp that distinction either so here we are.
I’m still lost as to what you aren’t understanding. I was responding to your comment about getting a stigma from visiting a metal health professional.
Let’s leave it at that, I’m getting the feeling that this isn’t worth the energy.
It's pretty easy to understand. The stigma only affects you if people find out. It's simply easier to hide a browser history then an appointment you have to physically go to.
It’s pretty easy to understand that that is what I meant. If society is punishing you more for the latter than the former then we are already too far gone.
The stigma is the same for both (more or less). It's easier to escape punishment, as you say, with the AI. There's more risk with appointments. Tbh, you are missing the point entirely.
No. I understood the point. I’m just not sure why nobody understood mine or how it is related. But whatever.
Yeah but that doesn't excuse you to cheapen your mental health that way by going through AI and self-diagnosing.
And it is not being entirely responsible for your well-being.
Yeah but that’s called life as an adult. Also excusing isn’t the same as explaining. Sometimes (or even oftentimes it seems) we do shit ou of lack of reasonable choices.
Uhh, no?
That's called being irresponsible.
Whatever happened to like, going to discord community support servers for mental health? I mean come on. It is poor hindsight and oversight to not see how bad ChatGPT is for everything, especially mental health.
You know better.
I’m sure it’s much better to take your mental health to discord… to a bunch of certainly qualified anonymous… talk about being responsible ^^
"don't go to the right wing corporate machine for mental help! go to the right wing trolls!"
look. neither of those are good options. both are just people trying to survive all the way until tomorrow. i would say 811 is a better option, but that's state controlled and imprisoning the mentally unwell is part of project 2025. i'd take this stance more seriously if your alternative to ChatGPT wasn't nearly equally as dangerous. if someone is reading this and is feeling in crisis and doesn't know where to turn, i'd most recommend going to your local public library and looking at the upcoming events. maybe talk to a librarian about where to find the difficult topics section. most librarians i know will get the hint and recommend some community resources to help you through your difficult times. any help you get online from a stranger or corporation without clear motives to help you is automatically a high risk interaction prone to spreading harmful dis or misinformation.