"If someone who passes every clinical benchmark for mental health reports feeling less lonely after talking to a model, your definition simply reclassifies them

"If someone who passes every clinical benchmark for mental health reports feeling less lonely after talking to a model, your definition simply reclassifies them as "not mentally healthy" to preserve the thesis." I would more readily accuse them of misusing the word "loneliness" than diagnose them as mentally ill. I would suggest it cured their boredom. If they developed a relationship with a model that they deem on par with that of a human, the mental health floodgates would indeed open, because that is objectively a delusion. The sentence you picked to zero-in on had context. I first asserted that loneliness is inextricably linked to humanity, and solved by human connection. That's a fine claim to take issue with (people do), but my statement about mentally healthy people flows logically from that premise. BTW, the mentally healthy qualifier was included to begin with because it's been shown that AI can be particularly dangerous for people with SMI. The vulnerable are more likely to fall for the illusion.