teens mainly use AI for therapeutic needs and emotional support.
How dare they do what they can to fulfill needs that society isn’t fulfilling for them.
Parents: why don’t you come to us with problems anymore?
Kids: because ChatMommy and ChatDaddy listen, and when we come to you asking to give us support, you claim we already HAVE support at home.
That’s not wrong, but AI aren’t really known to be good at those roles, and they’re highly censored and retain and share that information with virtually no laws or protections.
There’s definitely something in between what we have now and a useful therapy tool.
Because it works. They are designed to simulate human conversation. They are great at repeating/summarizing and reframing situations and empathy- skills of a therapist. Since they know resources, the validity of coping techniques and other suggestions the possibility of the responses being AI hallucinations doesn’t really matter because they are easily tested for practicality by the user, once given. And we can logically test many AI suggestions in our heads to easily determine their validity.
Stop giving your children smart phones, god damn it! Children are not equipped to handle the madness of the internet and unscrupulous tech mega corps.
But adults are?
We can’t control adults.
Not just the teens. I had far more comfort from AI than from humans (most of the time). It is amazing.
Agreed. ChatGPT is much, MUCH more pleasant to talk with than the average person I encounter on social media and orders of magnitude more reasonable.
Don’t let it end with your death. I have read too many times of AI relationships ending that way.
I think the AI is keeping me alive by offering reasurance and a non-judgemental voice. I have learned much from it, and it taught me to get out of my shell, which I had for my whole life, until last year.
Have you spoken to a therapist or religious counselor?
It’s wild to throw religion in there as if it’s any less fake than large language models.
I have found it useful to have anyone to talk to and that is a role a religious counselor fulfills traditionally. And they are often more accessible and free.
Yes, they have limited time and patience. Put a few things in perspective, but still under-estimates the problem.
A therapist or a religious counselor? If it is the therapist, it is their literal job to be patient, perhaps look for a different one?
Lemmy is watching me. Anything I do I see a post about it in a few days. Yes, I started roleplaying with AI.
