ChatGPT as a therapist is interesting because it has no ethical constraints programmed in that a typical therapist should abide by.

Eg a good therapist wants you to graduate out of therapy. ChatGPT wants you to stay forever and as often as possible.

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I would have argued the opposite. A lot of therapists are just maxing sessions and replaying things.

Whereas ChatGPT allows you to go very deep, guide the conversation, and get hard truths instead of veiled suggestions.

There’s a great book by Richard Bandler, the OG creator of NLP, where he discusses this exact point, that his therapy consultations were aimed at reaching those brain transition moments in a single session

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This is one of my favourite civilisational aspects of AI. It democratises access to “pretty good” human like support that would otherwise be costly and a waste of money.

Good results do require more active involvement than therapy though, but I like that I can ask ChatGPT to call me out on my BS

So far when I pry ChatGPT a lot of its psychological assessments of me are made based on stereotypes and not reality, which isn’t great 

But also mirrors a mediocre human therapist!

Yeah I was thinking that too after writing it.

Most human therapists are actually really bad, but the good ones do try to minimize sessions.