2026-04-19 21:53 UTC
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@QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world 2026-04-19 22:54
My train of thought is that we have such a burgeoning mental health crisis for a reason. Economic inequities, a crumbling job market, rampant corruption, moral decay, and too many other issues I haven't enough time to mention. We could never throw enough therapists and psychiatrists at the problem. We need to reassess our relationships between ourselves and our communities and nation.
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@cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 2026-04-19 22:17
> I can see the appeal of eschewing society as a whole in favor of a bot that I know won’t ask me my political or religious leanings and then tailor their behavior around my answer. ... tailoring their behavior around your answer is *literally how LLMs work*. That's why they're so sycophantic. Also unless you're running it locally on a machine you control, it doesn't need to ask you about your political or religious leanings anyway *because it already knows*. That's exactly the sort of context that data brokers have already long-since developed around your identity, and a commercial AI model is absolutely going to be looking at that kind of context to know exactly how to talk to you. You are going the wrong direction if you think AI is the solution to any of these things at least in the way it is currently being used. Casual smalltalk with randos is probably the cure. "Much less appealing" is the environment that's been intentionally created to prevent you from doing that. We're all in the same boat.