>I know several people who rave about ChatGPT as a pseudo-therapist, but from the outside the results aren’t encouraging.

Therapy is not a hard science; it's somewhat subjective and isn't guaranteed to actually help anyone. I do wonder about these people who believe LLM can be a useful therapist. Do they actually get worthwhile therapy from _real_ therapists? Or, are they just paying for someone to listen to them and empathize with them.

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watwut 3 days ago | parent [-]

Real therapists are not just validating you and are not just agreeing with you. Therapy is a work - for patient too.

	▲	SillyUsername 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		No but therapists like AI are not your friends. They're there for the money as nobody else would listen to this kind of thing day in day out for free. Your money stops - poof your therapist vanishes, not even a personal follow up call asking if you're ok, and I know this to be true from secondhand experience. You can't heap your problems on friends either or one day you'll find they'll give up speaking to you. So what options do you have left? A person who takes money from you to listen to you, friends you may lose, or you speak with an AI, but at least you know the AI doesn't feel for you by design.