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nxobjecttoday at 6:18 PM2 repliesview on HN

It's good to celebrate this... but, looking forward, it's worrying to think whether kiddos these days are going first to ChatGPT instead, of, well, the hotline (or real people!) I think there's genuine value in going to an AI -- as long as you think of it as "interactive journaling", and not a human relationship. But, will they encourage struggling kiddos to make the leap and ask for support from an actual person?


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inetknghttoday at 6:24 PM

> will they encourage struggling kiddos to make the leap and ask for support from an actual person?

Where's the profit in that?

malfisttoday at 6:26 PM

> I think there's genuine value in going to an AI

What's it going to do, help them avoid passive voice in their suicide note? Encourage them to carry it out? Hype them up about suicide? Tell them they're absolutely correct?

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