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I mean... what do you think human therapists are doing. I'm sure they have empathy and do care for their patients... but it's definitely empathy-for-money too.

• giantrobot 2y ago
  A licensed therapist has some strict confidentiality requirements and legal protections. A chatbot has none of that. Everything that goes into the chatbot will be included in the next training set. Even worse is everything said to them will eventually be monetized. Someone willingly giving personal such personal details to a chatbot is shockingly naive.
  • hombre_fatal 2y ago
    Meh, this just seems like low signal chicken littling. You could say the same thing about typing sensitive info into Notes.app or even iOS about how the evil corporations will monetize it and how naive you'd be to do it. But that didn't pan out. Feel free to pass over useful tech, but no need to disparage others for not wearing your tinfoil hat.
    • giantrobot 2y ago
      You can watch enshittification of services happen in nearly real time. In just the past five years we've seen a number of services (Reddit, Twitter, etc) update their T&Cs granting themselves the ability to dump all the platform's contents into AI training. The end of ZIRP (free money) has seen tech companies chasing profit over growth and increasing squeezing users and rent seeking. In light of all that it's hardly "chicken littling" to assume that hosted AI chat bots can't be trusted with intimate and personal details. The companies running them should be seen as inherently untrustworthy.