The side effects of new technologies
https://open.substack.com/pub/notexactlyana/p/the-ai-therapy-trap-what-chatgpt?r=6ba53d&utm_medium=ios
The side effects of new technologies
https://open.substack.com/pub/notexactlyana/p/the-ai-therapy-trap-what-chatgpt?r=6ba53d&utm_medium=ios
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More and more people are turning to digital tools for emotional support and guidance, but what are the long-term consequences for mental health care? Will reliance on technology reshape how we understand therapy in the future? Could this make help more accessible, or instead create a dangerous illusion of treatment? I’d love to hear your thoughts on how society might balance innovation with genuine human empathy in the years ahead.
I mean, what are people’s goals? If you’re a loner and want someone to talk to I guess you don’t have too many options. But it won’t help you not be a loner, in fact it may have you turn even more inwards when you realize that you actually “*don’t*” need other people. Recognizing what another human is going through and being able to empathize with them, together, may make a difference for some people. I guess an AI can study cases but I don’t think it will ever be able to recognize, in the moment, what someone is going through and give them the advice they need. But that also takes a “good” therapist. So, people are going to get what they get, they’re all just rolling the dice, and based on their own paths it will be up to them how they deal with it and what they get out of it.