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People don’t turn to chatbots for therapy because chatbots are good at therapy.
They do it for the same reason that people who are starving try to eat tree bark.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@emanuelmaiberg/116567606519577916
"It's like when we got cellphones and stopped remembering phone numbers, but it's grown to me mentally outsourcing ‘thinking’ in general."
U.S. analytics company Gallup says it is beginning to research using AI-generated agents to simulate how individuals and populations might answer survey questions. Here's the company blog with more information.
Well, there's one silver lining, I guess.
"It also cited a survey conducted by Recon Analytics, which asked more than 260,000 Americans about their AI usage. Just 0.174% of respondents said they are paying for Grok. By comparison, 6% say they are shelling out monthly for ChatGPT."
RE: https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/116561778064251533
This includes making art bots, surely!
"whether we like it or not"
That's a very defeatist attitude. You might want to learn more about successful labor, environmentalist, feminist, and other social justice movements.
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