Narri N.

Yeah, I realize the most important part of the point I was trying to make kinda got glossed over in my own reply (whoops); these LLMs nowadays are programmed to sound empathetic, more than any human can ever continuously achieve because we get tired and annoyed and other human stuff. This combined with the point of not every “emergency” really being an actual emergency leads me to believe that the idea of “therapeutic” AI chatbots could work, but I wouldn’t advocate using any of those that exist nowadays for this, at least if the user has any regards to online privacy. But having a hotline to a being that has all the resources to help you calm yourself down; a being that is always available, never tired, never annoyed, never sick or otherwise out of office; that seems to know you and remember things you have told it before - that sounds compelling as an idea. But then again, a part of that compel probably comes from the abysmal state of psychiatric healthcare that I and many others have witnessed, and this hotline should be integrated into that care. So I don’t know, maybe it’s just wishful thinking on my part, sorry I came across as needlessly hostile.

I’m not saying that’s ok, did you even read my reply or are you just being needlessly contrarian? Or was I just being unclear in my message, because if so I’m sorry. It tends to happen to me.

Yeah, well, that’s just, like, your opinion, man. And if you remove the very concept of capital gain from your “important point”, I think you’ll find your point to be moot.

I’m also going to assume you haven’t been in such a situation as I described with the whole mental health emergency? Because I have. At best I went to the emergency and calmed down before ever seeing a doctor, and at worst I was committed to inpatient care (or “the ward” as it’s also known) before I calmed down, taking resources from the treatment of people who weren’t as unstable as I was, a problem which could’ve been solved with a chatbot. And I can assure you there are people who live outside the major metropolitan areas of North America, it isn’t an extremely rare case as you claim.

Anyway, my point stands.

There are ways that LLMs can be used to better one’s life (apparently in some software dev circles these can be and are used to make workflow more efficient) and this can also be one of them, because the part that sucks most about therapy (after the whole monetary thing) is trying to find the form of therapy that works for you, and finding a therapist that you can work with. Every human is different, and that contains both the patient and the therapist, and not everyone can just start working together right off the bat. Not to mention how long it takes for a new therapist to actually get to know you to improve the odds of the cooperation working.

Obviously I’m not saying “replace all therapists with AIs controlled by racist capitalist pigs with ulterior motives”, but I have witnessed people in my own life who have had some immediate help from a fucking chatbot, which is kinda ridiculous. So in times of distress (say a borderline having such an anxiety attack that they can’t calm themselves because they don’t know what to do to the vicious cycle of thought and emotional response) and for immediate help a well-developed, non-capitalist LLM might be of invaluable help, especially if an actual human can’t be reached if for an example (in this case) the borderline lives in a remote area and it is the middle of the night, as I can tell from personal experience it very often is. And though not every mental health emergency requires first responders on the scene or even a trip to the hospital, there is still a possibility of both being needed eventually. So a chatbot with access to necessary information in general (like techniques for self-soothing e.g. breathing exercises and so forth) and possibly even personal information (like diagnostic and medication history, though this would raise more privacy concerns to be assessed) and the capability to parse and convey them in a non-belittling way (as some doctors and nurses can be real fucking assholes at times) could/would possibly save lives.

So the problem here is capitalism, surprising no-one.

The face should be edited to resemble anyone who’ll not want it to be seen most, after which The Streisand Effect will take care of it.

Ah, I see the “leading democracy of the world” is, indeed, leading by example. Der Antisemitismus verboten unter allen Umständen?

Yeah, that (the video hosting) is why I’m still using it. I started using Youtube in high school at the latest, so around 20 years ago (Youtube was launched in -05 so it couldn’t be earlier) and it’s the only one from those days I still use. But because everything tries to be a social media, and because of Alphabet’s rampant capitalism and the continued enshittification of everything it lies its grubby, fat, little fingers (kinda like DJT’s in a way), it has those disgusting aspects of social media forced on its users.

btw have you encountered the forced AI voice translation of videos yet? if there is one part of modern internet that I hate and absolutely despise the most, that causes more rashes than ads and more epileptic fits than all of the AI slop you can force down my throat, is when the internet is in my own language when it shouldn’t be and I have never asked it to be. if I’d want to watch shit in my own language I’d fucking search for shit in my own language, and there is a reason I never do (because it’s shit and cringe as fuck). if you’re gonna offer this service to the unwashed masses, at least let them op out. But no, it’s always on by default, and the video creator has to turn it off.

I don’t know which I hate the most, but since I don’t use any Meta products (finally dropped Whatsapp too last March), or Twitter (which I dropped after they made BetterTweetDeck unusable even before Felon took over), or Reddit (got banned from r/worldnews, r/asmongold among others), or Snapchat (which went along with insta and Threads earlier), so basically the only social media I actively use is… Youtube? And I hate all the social media aspects in there that I cannot evade. So I guess Youtube’s social media AI slop is the one I tolerate the most.

despite what my lightning fast intellect, general tendency to hallucinate, and inability to work properly because of capitalism may lead you to believe, i am not chatgpt

right on, thanks!

there was this microblogmeme where the joke was like “u need the ai to do your work because you’re too shit? do u need it to do your art for you because you can’t? u need it to fuck your wife for u also? fucking loser” and i think it’d fit here but couldn’t find it :( add: also why u gotta sully Tolkien’s name by naming your Military Industrial Complex AI-powered Snitching Machine Apparatus after his word? fuck you for that especially, please die to bullet wounds rn

this dude should really choke on it.

So just straight? Like seriously? That’s the most asinine type of trolling I’ve heard, I’m sorry if you don’t get it.

Ah, I see. So “I’d have sex with a man if he was assigned female at birth, but not with a woman if she was assigned male at birth” (assuming speaker is a super-straight male, and talking exclusively about transgendered people)? I, uh… I don’t know how to even approach this. If someone irl talked with me about this I’d probably suggest they seek some kind of therapy? Though I doubt people like this actually exist.

Doesn’t hypersexuality cover this? Or sex addiction?

bro capitalism is the best we’ve got, trust me bro despite its flaws it’s the only one that works bro, bro just accept this as truth, bro don’t question it bro.

Yeah, and the most capitalist part in them is the outrageous price tag and planned obsolescence. But yeah, keep talking about “muh technological development”

I swear bro the next capitalism actually works, bro trust me, bro without capitalism you wouldn’t have iphones bro.