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Karawebnetwork 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

Since you are referencing 42, let me draw from another piece of literature to respond.

“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”

It's not the machines themselves that are inherently tyrannical, it's the human will to dominate now supercharge by technology.

LLM hallucinations aside, unregulated artificial intelligence for mental health therapy is a very slippery slope. We cannot allow, say, advertisers and brands to have access to the mind of our most vulnerables so directly.

	▲	metalman 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		awwwhhhh!, I was enjoying the so close almostness of our current wrangles with what we are building compared to our literary greats imaginings on the subject. my personal suspicion is that the whole AI phenominon will exacerbate an already frenetic time of change in how humans live, here AI, will I think become a defining test of good judgement and compitency, like having a fun but sometimes dangerous and evil friend, who never goes away, for everybody....heres your AI, it bites sometimes, NEXT!

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kemotep 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This is banning claiming your AI is a licensed therapist in the State of Illinois. If you have a court order to attend therapy for drug abuse related reasons you can’t just use ChatGPT according to this law.

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romanows 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

Reading the text of the bill as a non-lawyer, it seems to also ban AI that provides therapy. I don't know if the AI needs to be explicitly labeled as therapy or if the content of chat could be decided to be therapy in a courtroom.

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0xbadcafebee 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

It's also banning licensed therapists from using AI. FTA:

> Licensed therapists in Illinois are now forbidden from using AI to make treatment decisions or communicate with clients, though they can still use AI for administrative tasks

Your doctor can diagnose your cancer with AI, but your therapist can't diagnose your ADHD with AI.

Stupid law is stupid.

	▲	Dylan16807 4 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Not that reliably diagnosing cancer is easy, but reliably diagnosing a mental issue is much harder. That's not a stupid place to put a hard restriction.
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eterm 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Building a computer to find the answer to the meaning of life is a joke.

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	▲	wizzwizz4 4 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Specifically, a satire. Poe's law is in full effect for most of Douglas Adams's works.

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ocdtrekkie 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I am sure that chatbots will do a "I cannot provide mental health advice" disclaimer and continue doing what they want, but there's probably some very solid reasons in Illinois to do this.

In particular, Illinois has a legal requirement that health insurance must cover mental health services at an equivalent level as physical health services, including care with no end date for chronic conditions. So whether or not a chatbot counts as mental health therapy is likely quite relevant on whether or not Illinoisans can bill insurance for it.