[bena]

Not just no, but fuck no.

Intimacy does not scale. No single entity can intimately care about even hundreds of people. So these chatbots are the property of an entity that does not care about you. This is different from people you would interact with in person. A therapist can form a bond with you. Can protect your privacy. These chatbots, by their nature, share with their owners. Who is not you.

[jasondigitized]

Just to poke, is a decent AI better than a bad therapist? A bad therapist will absolutely wreck someone's life.

[micromacrofoot]

I was going to shoot that guy, so I'm not sure why he's complaining about being stabbed

[MSKJ]

That's a false equivalence. The fact that the question is sparking a strong emotional response should indicate its pointing at something real and worth discussing

[micromacrofoot]

it's not, the question was "is this bad thing better than another bad thing" and was structuring it as a false dichotomy because the answer is "neither are better"

[add-sub-mul-div]

"Is a diet of McDonald's healthier than a salad that has shards of glass in it? Is McDonald's maybe healthy? Just asking questions."

[MSKJ]

Yes. Answer to your question

[throw310822]

> No single entity can intimately care about even hundreds of people. So these chatbots are the property of an entity that does not care about you.

If that's your problem then you should be totally fine with a self-hosted model.

[tsss]

There are many people who nobody cares about in real life either.