jbzđź‘Š Patients Furious at Therapists Secretly Using AI
"He was taking what I was saying and putting it into ChatGPT."
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@jbz This is horrifying. Any therapists or medical professionals doing this even once should lose their license.
It's a professional fault equivalent to posting their patient's confidential data publicly online. I would report any similar incidents to the appropriate authority.
Chris Wolff a.k.a. Shoe Bill@Em0nM4stodon @jbz
Yep. The psychiatrist who diagnosed my ADHD, which is what I went to him for in the first place, and also diagnosed my Tourette Syndrome on the spot (which no one until him had even suspected (I was 24 at the time (!))), could tell me in detail exactly how any psych med that's common, works, off the top of his head without looking it up. I'm not saying that everyone with MD for a title, or every therapist, etc. needs to be THAT good at rote memorization—most people just aren't—but… they do need to be somewhat good at it if/when they have to be. They also need to be able to think, which is the real danger here. They need to be able to draw from their own experience so far, and know when something isn't what it looks like on paper, and be able look at someone presenting with symptoms that overlap across multiple diagnoses and tell which is which, and whatnot. Especially a therapist. All forms of communication, by definition, necessitate putting some idea in someone's head; therefore, all communication is manipulative by definition. Their job, however unnervingly, is in many cases to put an idea in the patient's head that was already there and already had been for years if not decades. Their job is absolutely not for so-called AI to put an idea in their own head, especially because said idea was born from a bunch of other ideas, all of which just so happened to have been documented at some point, that may or may not be relevant to the patient they're currently manipulating in order to help them. People tend to react negatively whenever I describe anything good as manipulation, but that's what it is. Or AI does not manipulate people, which is absurd.
Yep. The psychiatrist who diagnosed my ADHD, which is what I went to him for in the first place, and also diagnosed my Tourette Syndrome on the spot (which no one until him had even suspected (I was 24 at the time (!))), could tell me in detail exactly how any psych med that's common, works, off the top of his head without looking it up. I'm not saying that everyone with MD for a title, or every therapist, etc. needs to be THAT good at rote memorization—most people just aren't—but… they do need to be somewhat good at it if/when they have to be. They also need to be able to think, which is the real danger here. They need to be able to draw from their own experience so far, and know when something isn't what it looks like on paper, and be able look at someone presenting with symptoms that overlap across multiple diagnoses and tell which is which, and whatnot. Especially a therapist. All forms of communication, by definition, necessitate putting some idea in someone's head; therefore, all communication is manipulative by definition. Their job, however unnervingly, is in many cases to put an idea in the patient's head that was already there and already had been for years if not decades. Their job is absolutely not for so-called AI to put an idea in their own head, especially because said idea was born from a bunch of other ideas, all of which just so happened to have been documented at some point, that may or may not be relevant to the patient they're currently manipulating in order to help them. People tend to react negatively whenever I describe anything good as manipulation, but that's what it is. Or AI does not manipulate people, which is absurd.
Nantucket Lit@jbz I think going to therapy can be a very good thing, but it's frustrating how many bad therapists are out there.
Rob@jbz i am going to end up investing in a signal jammer at this rate