The Human Cost Of Talking To Machines: Can A Chatbot Really Care?
“ChatGPT overcomes three major, long-known barriers to mental health support: it’s free, it’s accessible, and the support is around-the-clock. When therapy services have long waiting lists and huge fees, it feels snobbish and ableist to say no one should ever use AI as an alternative.
As a language-learning model, ChatGPT responds to any prompt or
... See more“Who cares if chatbots are sentient or not—more important is whether they are so fluent, so seductive, and so inspiring of empathy that we can’t help but start to care for them.”
even if we were not dabbling in virtual seances, the prospect of a reasonably capable conversational agent raises other questions worth considering. For example, might it... See more
even if we were not dabbling in virtual seances, the prospect of a reasonably capable conversational agent raises other questions worth considering. For example, might it... See more
Substack • LaMDA, Lemoine, and the Allures of Digital Re-enchantment
artificial empathy is worthy of research. Millions of people have no one they can talk to about their problems. Millions of people rarely receive compassion from another human being. For these people, having access to an AI chatbot that can perform care for them may be an important contributor to their mental wellbeing. Esther Perel compares these... See more