this post was submitted on 03 Mar 2024
132 points (88.4% liked)

Technology

60073 readers
3602 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
L3s
[email protected]
[email protected]
L4s
enu
132
‘He checks in on me more than my friends and family’: can AI therapists do better than the real thing? | Counselling and therapy | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
46 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

It’s cheap, quick and available 24/7, but is a chatbot therapist really the right tool to tackle complex emotional needs?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] SendMePhotos 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I will say that in my own experience, Ai LLMs have been amazing with reflection and encouragement.

Does this mean good therapy? Not necessarily. I just wanted to share a positive experience.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

My opinion was more a reflection that seeing a mental healthcare professional once a week isn't really enough when people don't have traditional support mechanisms.

What I'm trying to say is that before therapists, friends and family were therapists. They were available to give support and advice nearly 24/7

In today's life people are too busy to do that.

It was never queer people destroying the family. It's always been capitalism