[reify]

misleading title as usual

Its not a personality, its the fanstasy called GPT-4o.

absolutely rubbish as a therapist unless it uses basic CBT concepts.

To be honest a schoolboy could teach you the A,B.C's of CBT after reading an introduction guide.

A. The activating event.

B. Your beliefs about the event.

C. Consequences, which includes your behavioral or emotional response to the event.

see, its easy

[SideburnsOfDoom]

> absolutely rubbish as a therapist unless it uses basic CBT concepts

I assume that CBT = "Cognitive Behavioural Therapy" ?

It seems that you're saying that a therapist will be "rubbish unless they use basic Cognitive Behavioural Therapy concepts" ? i.e. that this is the only valid approach to therapy?

I don't think that this is true at all.

But I do agree that a LLM that is basically "echo-chamber as a service" and will supply confirmation bias, but never push you even a single step out of your comfort zone. And this is useless for therapy. Absolutely pointless and counterproductive. It is not any of the valid approaches.

[kmmlng]

> It seems that you're saying that a therapist will be "rubbish unless they use basic Cognitive Behavioural Therapy concepts" ? i.e. that this is the only valid approach to therapy?

I believe the parent poster is saying that CBT is the only form of therapy you can trust an LLM to pull off because it's straightforward to administer.

[netbsdusers]

Computerised CBT is even already being delivered and by quite a bit less sophisticated systems than LLMs. Resourcing constraints have made it very popular in the UK.

[SideburnsOfDoom]

In that case, the questionable statement is the assumption that a LLM can pull off any form of therapy at all.

[motoxpro]

I know the anthropomorphizing feels inaccurate to some. What is the "correct" way to describe this in one word other than "personality"? We use "respond" in programming, but a machine can't really "respond," can it? It can pass data from a server to a client. We just use shorthand for these types of actions because they are so easily analogous to the human action.

[MonstraG]

I would go for "writing style" or "behavior", but would almost be okay with "personality"

[deeThrow94]

Inanimate objects are said to have personality, too. This is certainly true for clothing and decor.

[koakuma-chan]

Rust has error handling personality.