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by scarface_74 495 days ago
He said it “structures their thinking”. Think in terms of a Rogerian psychotherapist that just keeps asking you questions and makes you think about things you wouldn’t have thought about. He didn’t say he would use the advice.

I use ChatGPT all of the time to clarify my thoughts like this and NotebookLM actually comes up with some good questions I didn’t think about when doing discovery with a client (cloud consulting). I put all of the collected artifacts - transcripts, statements of work and anything else I collect during discovery.

Yes both ChatGPT (if we turn off sharing content for training) and NotebookLM is specifically allowed by my company and we use GSuite as our office standard

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The scarry part is before using ChatGPT they couldn't figure it out, so they're either getting more information or are ending with the same results but just feel better about it, whithout still having figured it out.

It sounds innocent enough, but your parallel to psychotherapy is I think very spot on. You need trust in your therapist and they also do their best to be non directive and let you explore your own state. When you tell your therapist you have self-harm thought, it makes a world of difference when they ask what happened vs what tools do you think you need.

To me, my train of thought is the last part I want involvement from a third party I have no trust in.