Is it protectionism or is there real danger to ai therapy that outweighs the help these services provide?

I am inclined to think this is protectionism. More people need someone to talk to than not. No one has any friends.

Is it protectionism or is there real danger to ai therapy that outweighs the help these services provide?

I am inclined to think this is protectionism. More people need someone to talk to than not. No one has any friends.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/health/ai-therapists-chatbots.html?unlocked_article_code=1.z04.9oDk.xnygCdfNt0ut&smid=url-share

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Tend to think talk therapy would be pretty easy assignment for LLM. And with few ways to pay for human therapist, well worth it.

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There was at least one suicide resultant of ai companion prompting, which is of course going to rankle

Need to compare against control.

Both human and no therapy.

But even if you control the interventions, there are other confounding factors  that affect how people respond to treatment? I also see issues with even designing a study here — results may not even show much. I think that’s another part of it for me, I don’t think the results are important on one hand, and on the other they wouldn’t be trustable to me

People are just going to do it anyhow. There are already tons of apps. But i’d still like to know results.

Hyp this might sound crazy but I don’t even think we need to bother. Huge amounts of Americans at least have no one. I posted a graph yesterday that showed tons and tons of people have 0 friends or very few. Fixing that is a decade long project. In the meantime, let people have their AI help. We don’t even need to study it…