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If you needed medicine that cost money, but you could get poison for free, you'd choose the poison instead of the medicine?
by JohnFen 2y ago
If you needed medicine that cost money, but you could get poison for free, you'd choose the poison instead of the medicine?
- Ukv 2y agoPeople choosing to use an LLM for therapeutic support probably do so with the belief that it is, while maybe not as beneficial as a human therapist, better than nothing. Early RCT results[0] so far do seem promising. It's not equivalent to choosing to drink poison, which would very clearly be far worse than nothing. [0]: https://ai.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/AIoa2400802 https://ai.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/AIoa2400802
- JohnFen 2y agoFair enough, "poison" was going a bit far. I do very much suspect it's actively detrimental, but that's just my personal opinion, not fact.