[fullshark]

Mental health issues in the population are never going away, people using software tools to prey on those with issues is never going away. Arguably the entire consumer software industry preys on addiction and poor impulse control already.

[dingnuts]

yeah, I know, I'm addicted to this hellhole of a site. I hate it but I still open it every five minutes.

But that's not what I'm talking about, I'm talking specifically about people who've made a SoTA model their buddy, like the people who were sad when 4o disappeared. Users of character.ai. That sort of thing. It's going to get very, very expensive and provides very little value. People are struggling with rent. These services won't be able to survive, I hope, purely through causing psychosis in vulnerable people.