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After hearing about friends having great experiences treating GPT-3 as a therapist I tried it myself and 5 minutes in oh my god it goes straight for the throat I feel so seen
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I tried to find a good screenshot to attach to this but honestly I’m not willing to share any of this. I’m open almost to a fault, but this is too close to home
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How input dependent is this? You're kind and introspective, so that is what you get back from the AI. I worry about where the conversation would go for someone who was negative or self-destructive. (This is very much not me, to be clear.)
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I thought you made a good point so I did another run being as depressive as I could. I sampled most “John” lines only once, I think I ran one twice. I’m really impressed The prefix makes a difference but that could be automatically prepended by an end-user therapy app
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I wonder how it would feel to have GPT-3 predict your next lines in a conversation with a therapist once it's trained on a corpus of your journal entries The next lines would be like a mirror to yourself. If they look like what you would have said, the model understands you
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That is really quite remarkable. I don't know how much info you can feed it, but a crisis text line corpus might work really well. Obviously dangerous if things go wrong, so it would need supervision, but I could see some people being more comfortable engaging with an AI.
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I just read this to my grandma and she said "Wow! Just like human. I don't talk to people much now. Nowadays I try to think of a word and it seems I just can't remember. I wonder if I can practice talking to the computer like this. Maybe it will help me from Alzheimer's."
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