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ArcHoundyesterday at 8:23 PM2 repliesview on HN

phew, that's a healthy start.

I am still slightly worried about accepting emotional support from a bot. I don't know if that slope is slippery enough to end in some permanent damage to my relationships and I am honestly not willing to try it at all even.

That being said, I am fairly healthy in this regard. I can't imagine how it would go for other people with serious problems.


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netsharcyesterday at 9:24 PM

A friend broke up with her partner. She said she was using ChatGPT as a therapist. She showed me a screenshot, ChatGPT wrote "Oh [name], I can feel how raw the pain is!".

WTF, no you don't bot, you're a hunk of metal!

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j-pbyesterday at 9:23 PM

I completely agree that it is certainly something to be mindful of. It's just that found the people from there were a lot less delusional than the people from e.g. r/artificialsentience, which always believed that AI Moses was giving them some kind of tech revelation though magical alchemical AI symbols.