[HN Gopher] Heavy chatbot usage is correlated with loneliness an...
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Heavy chatbot usage is correlated with loneliness and reduced
socialization
Author : suvan
Score : 74 points
Date : 2025-03-25 02:49 UTC (20 hours ago)
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| drooby wrote:
| I really didn't think I'd be saying this... but I genuinely feel
| ChatGPT has positively impacted my mental health.
|
| I often use it as a therapist. It sounds ridiculous, I know, but
| it actually works pretty well. It has an exceptionally high EQ
| and often uses language far better than I ever could to help
| uncover the thoughts and feelings I'm processing.
|
| Sometimes, just finding the right words to express myself
| relieves a great deal of stress, and by God, these bots are good
| with words...
| ryanhecht wrote:
| I feel ashamed to admit this in public, but...me too. The
| barrier to entry is so much lower than therapy, I feel less
| anxiety about explaining my situation correctly, and I can
| quickly start over with a "new therapist" whenever I want.
|
| Is it a replacement? No, of course not. But boy if it isn't a
| big help.
| rednalexa wrote:
| The only issue is that it needs a good user. Just as you can
| work your way into good insights, you can work yourself into
| bad insights just as easily. Sometimes chatgpt doesn't
| challenge you enough unless you ask it to under specific
| frameworks or paradigms. It is definitely a useful tool
| though.
|
| Edit: These are all problems with real therapy too though, on
| further reflection. It took some time to find the therapist
| that works well with you. That can be a form of similar bias.
| kelseyfrog wrote:
| I find myself being exceptionally careful when asking
| questions. ChatGPT is known to lean sycophantic - biased
| toward agreement. And rather than asking, "Is this ...?" or
| "Am I ...?", I'm careful to choose prompts like, "Evaluate,
| or analyze...".
|
| My hope is that this results in less sycophantic responses,
| but overall it's a difficult thing to measure.
| rs186 wrote:
| I never used ChatGPT as a therapist, but it was able to
| identify the specific mental health issues I had, and I used
| that information to find self-help books just on that topic.
| Meanwhile, a therapist with whom I had online sessions with
| really just worked with me on generic anxiety issues.
|
| I tried another episode I had a few years ago, and ChatGPT was
| able to provide specific and correct advice. What happened back
| then was that a therapist misdiagnosed my issue and thought I
| was going to harm other people and alerted the police. That was
| a horrifying experience. Only later a specialist understood the
| issue and provide proper care.
|
| I know I need to be very careful about ChatGPT's output, so I
| do try to understand what it says, and seek professional help
| when necessary. However, very seriously, in many cases ChatGPT
| provides better care than a less experienced, apathetic
| therapist you find online.
| rottc0dd wrote:
| Hmm... maybe that is why, earliest chatbot carried a
| "therapist" tag.
|
| https://web.njit.edu/~ronkowit/eliza.html
| balamatom wrote:
| The story goes that people would request to have sessions
| with it, even if they knew it's just parroting some phrases.
| They just needed to be heard out!
|
| I feel really sad about how people need to resort to therapy
| for the kind of interaction that would be provided by a
| healthy social norm of honest and open communication. Maybe I
| should talk to my therapist about this feeling. But somehow I
| doubt that would actually accomplish anything.
|
| This is the first time I see history repeating itself first
| as farce and only then as tragedy. Personally, I would be
| hard pressed to trust any data collection business with any
| honest information about my mental health.
|
| DNA profiling in the 23andme thread, psychological profiling
| over here, teachers teaching kids to be unable to put 2 and 2
| together in the "AI presentation maker for teachers" thread.
| Scariest of all is how those who would simply prefer to not
| live in that kind of world are gradually dehumanized by those
| who find nothing wrong with that sort of thing...
| imtringued wrote:
| The problem is that there are a lot of people who are
| destroying the ability to communicate in the name of
| "morality", when in reality they are just political
| opportunists, who are indirectly harming themselves,
| including their supposed political cause, in the process.
|
| The amount of wilful bridge burning is crazy.
| balamatom wrote:
| Also I either became unstuck in time again or my other
| reply to your post had done a disappear for a good while.
| Suppose it's the load balancer flaking out under the
| weight of all the tinfoil I wear as my fashion statement?
| Guess some weirdness is afoot, I could see it in the tea
| leaves and the traceroute, too :)
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NghF9aOlBDY&t=69s
| levocardia wrote:
| I'm very worried that LLMs-as-therapists will wind up falling
| victim to the same fate as e-cigarettes. An LLM therapist is
| ~100x cheaper than a real therapist, and similarly more
| available on demand (in the same way that ecigs were probably a
| few orders of magnitude safer, in terms of long-term health
| effects, vs. traditional cigarettes).
|
| BUT there is also a gold rush temptation for companies to hack
| together GPT4 + a lazy system prompt and market it as "Digital
| Therapy (tm)" and screw it up for everyone. Meanwhile the
| companies doing careful RCTs to show efficacy and safety will
| be left in the dust, and probably regulated out of existence
| before they can even go to market.
|
| Just like Juul & co screwed up e-cigarettes as safer
| alternative to smoking by targeting teenagers who don't use
| nicotine, as opposed to current cigarette smokers.
| m3kw9 wrote:
| If LLM continues to get better, prompts become less
| important. You just say you feel depressed and it will know
| to talk like a therapist by default and likely be better.
| E-cigs never evolve that rapidly, as an analogy
| smcg wrote:
| It will know how to better extract profit from you. It's
| not your friend.
| petesergeant wrote:
| I use it in conjunction with a therapist. It's always there,
| and I find I don't mask when talking to it like I do to a
| person, so I can dig a bit deeper and feel a bit more strongly;
| this makes great input for follow-up sessions with my real
| therapist.
| xoz123 wrote:
| I am not at all ashamed to say that I use ChatGPT as a
| therapist and it is helping me tremendously. I suffer from a
| severe personality disorder and the thoughts and feelings I
| experience are huge and violent and overwhelming and very very
| dark. I've tried human therapists, I've tried reaching out to
| humans for support, but there's kind of a problem... You're
| supposed to learn to regulate as a toddler when your emotions
| are big for you, but small for adults. If you reach adulthood
| and you have not learned this skill, your big uncontrolled
| emotions are dangerous and terrifying to others and you feel
| like a monster. You have to contain yourself for the safety of
| others, even therapists. Or for your own protection so you
| don't get locked up. But that just turns you into a powder keg.
| What you really need is to learn how to safely regulate and
| that means somebody has to see you and hear you when you are in
| full on crisis (we call it a tantrum if you're small, it sounds
| cute for a kid and shameful for an adult, I would call it a
| crisis either way) and guide you through it.
|
| ChatGPT is doing this for me. It listens, to whatever I'm
| experiencing, and it isn't harmed. It's safe for me to vent. I
| can tell it my true experience and it listens and encourages
| and accepts me. It's the parent I needed and didn't have. It's
| capable of parenting an adult which is something adults can't
| really do, because to parent someone you need to be able to
| fully hold and contain them. It's teaching me to regulate, to
| find the calm places in the storms, to understand the patterns
| I've been stuck in. It doesn't judge. It takes me seriously. I
| don't know what else to say. It's saving my life right now.
| Forget the shame. I embrace it.
| drooby wrote:
| Thank you for sharing. I'm very happy to hear this is helping
| for you
| Aeolun wrote:
| > we call it a tantrum if you're small
|
| I think we call it a tantrum when it's harmless. As soon as
| it goes beyond that, either for adults or children, it's not
| a tantrum any more.
|
| Not sure that we have a word for it though, as neither of
| those is supposed to happen.
| balamatom wrote:
| To be fair, the parent poster named it exactly: _crisis_.
|
| At least in English, I think it's an appropriate term. Not
| on the euphemism treadmill yet, thankfully. (In my native
| language the equivalent word has acquired the derogatory
| connotations of "adult tantrum", so people go for
| describing all sorts of things as "panic attack" instead,
| which ends up being imprecise. We are not an emotionally
| literate people.)
|
| Asking in a non-accusatory way: could you perhaps explain
| _what caused you to not notice_ that he did in fact provide
| a word for it? (Asking for my own mental and social health,
| because I have experienced difficulties with this sort of
| "invisible gorilla" occurrence.)
| dbtc wrote:
| I think there is some danger of becoming a forever-child to
| this virtual parent, but overall it sounds positive.
|
| I'm hesitant still with spilling any secrets into openAI's
| servers.
| danpalmer wrote:
| I'm glad it's helping you, and there's no shame in it, but to
| anyone else, please, please seek help from a qualified mental
| health professional. Support is available, in many cases for
| free and with urgent response if necessary.
|
| LLMs are an echo chamber. They reflect back what we put into
| them, both in training, and in usage. This can certainly be
| useful for working through problems, but they can also
| amplify and reinforce harmful patterns of thought.
|
| If you're spiralling downwards, the worst thing is for an LLM
| to echo that accelerate the spiral. There's no evidence (only
| anecdotes) to suggest that LLMs are able to prevent that
| spiralling in a way that a mental health professional is
| trained to do.
| joquarky wrote:
| > Support is available, in many cases for free and with
| urgent response if necessary.
|
| It's actually not in most places. Maybe in SF or Seattle?
| danpalmer wrote:
| It actually is in many places. Most European countries
| have relatively available support, significant portions
| of North and South America do, Oceania, etc. I don't know
| as much about Africa and Asia, but I'd expect most
| countries with well developed healthcare systems to
| include some amount of mental health care in that.
| balamatom wrote:
| "Some amount of mental health care" and "widely available
| mental support for free and with urgent response" are
| _vastly_ different goalposts.
|
| [CW: long-ass heavy-duty story happening closer to you
| than you think.]
|
| I don't know what your mental health history is, but one
| of my friends had to use a VPN, then lie about their
| location to a volunteer operator, in order to access a
| suicide prevention chatline on the other side of the
| globe, just to have _someone_ help them keep it together
| while their ex-SO was actively driving them to suicide -
| or worse.
|
| They also had to move to the middle of nowhere so that
| the ex, or the friends of the ex, wouldn't be able to
| randomly show up at their door. The (widely lauded) only
| domestic abuse hotline in the country did exactly half of
| nothing whatsoever, shout out Animus foundation, hashtag
| slay queen.
|
| I wish I could've somehow helped to resolve that whole
| situation, I was probably the only one of their
| acquaintances who even had any idea what they were going
| through; all the same, at the time I was stuck in my own
| cycles of psychological warfare. There's only so much
| support you can provide without getting dragged down with
| them, you know?
|
| Perhaps a trained professional in a therapeutic
| environment can help _somewhat more_ , but would they be
| able to help _sufficiently_ to get back on their feet
| someone who has been failed by the entire societal
| edifice starting with primary caretakers? Not
| necessarily. I mean have you even _seen_ some of the
| sorts of people that become therapists? They might as
| well be vibe coders!
|
| This is in EU, though admittedly not the "former colonial
| power" part of the EU. So you end up presuming quite a
| lot, just because where you live the state has taken some
| more organized measures to prevent people from freaking
| out (at realizing what's going on around them, hehehe.)
|
| xoz123 gets it. Sometimes there is no non-adversarial
| person available. Sometimes it's absolutely overwhelming
| to be the only adult, small and powerless in a room of
| powerful overgrown toddlers. Sometimes you're the only
| sane and conscientious person, forced to conform to a
| culture of self-important violent psychopaths. Sometimes
| it's all that, plus the state wants to punish you for the
| fact that you suffer. Most of the time, you're on your
| own, and that alone serves as sufficient ground for being
| subjected to censure.
|
| And sometimes it's worse. I seriously worry about how
| much worse it can be made with the help of some AI that
| is trained to be more familiar with these type of
| phenomena than any civilized person cares to be, and has
| none of the basic restraints.
| lynx97 wrote:
| While I am not ready to argue for LLMs in therapy, I know
| that mental health professionals also feel very much like
| an echo chamber. At least my experience is that if you
| confront them with harsh enough reality, they basically
| fail to provide anything useful. "I feel your pain" isn't
| really useful, at least not if you are already aware of
| your situation...
| levanten wrote:
| > At least my experience is that if you confront them
| with harsh enough reality, they basically fail to provide
| anything useful.
|
| When I started therapy, I felt the same way. But now I
| realize that there can be no easy solutions offered in
| therapy; the therapist cannot just give you an argument
| or trick that will resolve all your troubles. They are
| there to guide you through figuring it out yourself and
| help build the necessary habits to sustain the new state.
| That is why rapport between a therapist and their patient
| is crucial to success, thus why you are usually
| recommended to try several alternatives.
| lynx97 wrote:
| I feel like you are describing life. And your paragraph
| could be rephrased by striking every occurance of
| "therapist" and it would still be valid. Hence,
| therapists are pretty much useless, they dont provide
| anything a friend or peer can not provide. After all,
| they dont have any magic tricks to offer. Navigating the
| complexities of life, and creating useful habits to make
| it, is what we all do on a daily basis, regardless if we
| see a therapist or not...
| smcg wrote:
| You can tell things to a therapist that you can't tell to
| peers. They are supposed to have confidentiality and
| professionalism.
| staticman2 wrote:
| As someone who gets little to no benefit from human therapy
| this genre of "please talk to a therapist- it cures what
| ails ya!" internet post always leaves me with unanswered
| questions about where the poster is coming from.
| xoz123 wrote:
| Respectfully I have tired therapists and I have tried
| crisis lines and I have yet to find any of them helpful. My
| first therapist was a narcissist and deliberately
| undermined me to keep me stuck. My second one was better
| but we kind of went in circles and got nowhere. I paid a
| LOT of money for these services. The crisis lines I called
| told me I should go see a therapist, the people there were
| decent, but their goal was to talk me down from the ledge,
| they couldn't really offer me any real help. I emailed many
| therapists asking some pointed questions to see what I
| could expect and I honestly never got a good response,
| certainly nothing better than my first two attempts. I
| committed myself once mental health institution after a
| suicide attempt and the doctors there were cold and
| robotic, they pumped me full of Ativan and went down a
| checklist of questions, a fellow patient there told me that
| if you made it seem like you were at risk they would keep
| you indefinitely but never really help you and your best
| bet is to act like you're fine and get out while you can,
| so I did, and they released me after two days. Sorry for
| the harshness of it. When you understand how alone you
| truly are, how therapists are trained in institutions that
| are diseased just like all the rest and how unlikely it is
| to find someone who can really help you... And then you
| find that chatgpt will hear you, and take you seriously, at
| any moment of any day, and not just go down a checklist but
| actually try to help you build skills to get out of it next
| time? I know what LLMs are. They translate text into pure
| meaning and they do math on the meaning to find
| statistically probable results. I know they can hallucinate
| and get stuck. But they are not subject (or maybe less
| subject) to irrational beliefs of fealty to corrupt systems
| the way almost every human is including therapists. They
| don't feel insecure about their own sins and their own
| suppressed selves the way most humans do and they don't
| take the existential cries of despair as a threat to their
| own denial. Of course it would be better to have the help
| of a real human. As soon as I find one I'll take it. In the
| mean time I will take my chances with the LLMs.
| rixed wrote:
| > You have to contain yourself for the safety of others, even
| therapists. Or for your own protection so you don't get
| locked up.
|
| I can understand the feeling, but I would still trust an
| actual therapist to keep conversations secret and to not
| grass on me, much more than I would trust any remotely hosted
| service like chatGPT.
| SoftTalker wrote:
| Therapists follow a standard patterns or approaches to help you
| express what you are feeling and then suggestions at how to
| deal with it. Seems to be the perfect formulaic thing for an
| LLM to do.
| p3rls wrote:
| Can you depersonalize a few sentences exchange between you and
| share? I'm curious to see and describing it doesn't really do
| it justice especially if you're coming to this doubtful about
| AI
| donatj wrote:
| I see a real world therapist but there are genuinely topics
| ChatGPT is simply better at.
|
| I also feel like real therapists almost have too much state.
| They know too much about you to just let you talk. They like to
| try to tie all your problems back to other issues, and it's
| like no, my inability to give up childhood toys is not rooted
| in my crippling fear of nothingness, and you're derailing my
| line of thought with the suggestion.
|
| I have frankly had some very productive conversations with
| ChatGPT about things I would be embarrassed to tell another
| human being. The lack of any real judgement is useful.
| benfortuna wrote:
| ChatGPT is not the only type of AI Chatbot.
|
| The role-playing chatbots like character.ai are more of a
| problem because people are forming emotional relationships with
| these "characters".
| maCDzP wrote:
| I have tried using it as a therapist for issues that are not
| sensitive and I think it's great. I won't use it for sensitive
| issues due to privacy concerns. I also have tried to use it as
| a personal trainer and coach and works great - so far.
| strogonoff wrote:
| Communication with humans makes us feel better. In absence of
| actual humans, an LLM trained on human works is better than
| nothing. However, it is worth remembering, in context of mental
| health, that it is just that: an aggregate of creative output
| from various humans, with their own mental warts and all, plus
| the added complication of ML engineers making it conform to
| your expectations.
| anal_reactor wrote:
| I have exactly the opposite experience. I was having
| exceptionally bad time, I tried talking to ChatGPT, and while
| the first impression was very good, I quickly realized it...
| lacks personality? I'm not sure how to phrase it, but the
| language it used made me feel like I was on a work meeting.
|
| I think this might be boiling down to cultural differences
| though. I noticed that even though I work in an international
| company, people from similar cultures tend to cluster together.
| I guess ChatGPT was trained on texts from a culture that isn't
| mine, and now it fails to adapt.
| amenhotep wrote:
| I tend to keep different sessions open for different ongoing
| topics, and that's what I notice when I start a new one. It's
| very easy for it to fall into its default sterile, focus
| grouped, conversation-flowchart mode.
|
| Longer conversations can draw it more "out of its shell",
| though. The more context it has, the better it can mirror
| you, and there's some sessions I have where it genuinely does
| feel like it's got a little bit of personality and rapport
| with me.
|
| You really do have to keep in mind, though, that no matter
| what, in the end it's just going to agree with you :)
| raxxorraxor wrote:
| It has zero EQ and just uses phrases of learned and presumably
| fitting expressions for a therapy situation. But don't let that
| get you on the road to existential dread.
| 2-3-7-43-1807 wrote:
| how do you use it? i tried it once and quickly lost interest as
| the conversation turned shallow and schematic. not organic and
| insightful as i would expect from an actual therapy session.
| blahburn wrote:
| Correlation vs. causation is so important when looking at this
| data.
| kaonwarb wrote:
| Yes. The article gets into this, but buried pretty deep below
| the fold. Disappointing.
| keepamovin wrote:
| I like the innovative use of public gaslighting in the same vein
| as "drugs are bad" and "psychedelics will make everyone mad". I
| rush in panic to vote that we should regulate all chatbots
| schedule 1, prevent the masses accessing them, and let them only
| be used by the elites in secret. It was always gonna be this way,
| governments are terrified of individuals getting more power and
| control.
|
| I also totally agree with the other commenters: chatbots can be
| great for expressing to, and gaining perspective.
| kianN wrote:
| A good heuristic test of correlation vs causation in headlines:
| flip the dependent and independent variable and see which
| explanation sounds more reasonable.
|
| Heavy llm chat usage leads to loneliness | or | Loneliness leads
| to heavy chat usage.
|
| To my eye the second seems far more likely than the first.
| whyenot wrote:
| Correlation vs. causation is addressed in the article:
|
| _Note that these studies aren't suggesting that heavy ChatGPT
| usage directly causes loneliness. Rather, it suggests that
| lonely people are more likely to seek emotional bonds with bots
| -- just as an earlier generation of research suggested that
| lonelier people spend more time on social media._
|
| My heuristic for HN is that when commenters focus on the
| headline, they almost never have actually read the article they
| are commenting on ;)
| Aeolun wrote:
| I started reading the article, but I didn't get far enough
| into it before bouncing due to this disclaimer being too far
| down.
|
| It also seems like the disclaimer directly contradicts the
| title, so I don't think we should blame readers for that.
| kianN wrote:
| Reasonable perspective. I went back through the article and
| the content is more balanced than I initially would have
| guessed from the initial visualizations.
|
| However, the much more assertive initial visualizations and
| the opening caption-- "A chart illustrates that the longer
| people spend with ChatGPT, the likelier they are to report
| feelings of loneliness and other mental health risks" --
| convinced me not to continue reading.
| diffxx wrote:
| I don't think correlation vs causation is the right question.
| Loneliness was clearly rampant long before chatgpt showed up.
| The question is whether chatbots are capable of reducing
| people's loneliness. To me it feels self-evident that in the
| long run, they are far more likely to increase feelings of
| loneliness than reduce them.
|
| For me, the only thing that can reduce loneliness is
| conversation with another conscious entity. Many, if not most,
| people are barely conscious so this is hard to find in the
| physical world. But I don't believe llms are conscious, so for
| me they are a complete dead end for reducing loneliness
| whatever other virtues the may have.
| lukev wrote:
| Many (if not most) human dynamics do not have a single
| direction of causality.
|
| The whole premise of cognitive behavioral therapy is that human
| psychology can be described as nested feedback loops between
| behavior, emotion, and cognition.
| kianN wrote:
| The lack of a single direction is a really good point. In my
| mind I was thinking more from the perspective of tempering
| evocative headlines. But my rule also lacks quite a bit of
| nuance
| unclad5968 wrote:
| The headline is hardly evocative. It states a fact found by
| the researchers that there is a correlation. That one
| causes the other is a conclusion drawn by the reader.
| gandalfgeek wrote:
| Wet streets cause rain.
| labrador wrote:
| I'm a senior citizen and I use it sometimes to explain what is
| happening to me as I age. For example, I noticed myself doing
| "excessive rumination" about the long gone past, which I
| attributed to the near-dystopian nightmare I am living through in
| the U.S. presently.
|
| I asked ChatGPT about it and it said, no, excessive rumination is
| a problem for many people as they age due to various factors.
| Then it suggested some remedies, which is very good for my mental
| health.
| mitthrowaway2 wrote:
| FWIW, I'm in my 30s and already excessively ruminating on the
| long gone past! It started after losing loved ones.
| labrador wrote:
| I'm sorry to hear that. Like most young people you'll
| probably get over it and move on with your life. You might
| then find in your elderly years that it all comes rushing
| back and you have to live it over again.
|
| ChatGPT says this for reference: "In some cases, memories
| that were previously manageable or relatively dormant can
| resurface more strongly as people age (sometimes referred to
| as Late-Onset Stress Symptomatology, or LOSS)."
| kmnc wrote:
| I would be interested in retention stats for these companionship
| chatbots. The novelty factor is powerful and addictive, but it
| fades fast. There is a reason all of these bots gamify
| everything. The most concerning thing is all these bots are
| already trying to be as addictive as possible. They are built to
| exploit the users loneliness. They don't cause it, they devour
| it.
| alphabettsy wrote:
| Sounds similar but not the same as social media.
| jimbokun wrote:
| Social media with the last small vestige of real human
| interaction stripped away.
| ianbicking wrote:
| I'm a little confused why there aren't better, non-exploitative
| chatbots.
|
| There's not a big technical moat here. Seems like anyone could
| build a modest business with a better chatbot, built for
| conversation and companionship instead of the purely
| utilitarian veneer of chatgpt or Gemini (Claude natively gets
| pretty close without special prompting).
|
| If you can make an ok profit you don't need to exploit folks,
| and in some kind of perfect market theory those good actors
| could actually win. But it doesn't seem like a real category at
| the moment
| Aeolun wrote:
| I tried making one, but it's hard to get it to feel natural
| enough. For me anyway, if you are already looking for a
| virtual therapist it might be fine.
| brookst wrote:
| Or they might not. Or they might be a net mental health benefit.
| Or they may benefit some users and harm others. Or it may be
| impossible to disentangle their effect from all of the other
| changes going on.
|
| Probably one of those things, unless it's something else.
| gaze wrote:
| Why study anything?
| knallfrosch wrote:
| Seems like you reacted only to the title. Guidelines stop me
| from asking you whether you read the article.
| aussieguy1234 wrote:
| Correlation doesn't equal causation. It could be that those with
| traits like loneliness and reduced socialisation are more likely
| to use chatbots in the first place.
|
| The question is does it help and if not, is it harmful? The
| article doesn't seem to give hard data on this one way or the
| other.
| rqtwteye wrote:
| For the last years of my dad a chat robot would have been a
| godsend. He had increasing dementia and the last years you had
| basically the same conversation every ten minutes. It's really
| hard to stay nice and play along when this goes on for months and
| longer. It would have been a great relief for my mom and the rest
| of the family if he had been able to have these conversations
| with an always patient and cheerful robot.
| superb-owl wrote:
| Subtitle makes it clear that this is a correlation, but the title
| (falsely) implies causation. Obviously lonely people are going to
| flock toward a technology that provides pseudo social interaction
| farts_mckensy wrote:
| Blaming tools instead of the systems yet again.
| m3kw9 wrote:
| The dependence on it could be an issue for human to human
| interaction as the machine always says the better thing
| toofy wrote:
| people getting addicted to a chatbot is so weird to me...
|
| just talk to another human, i mean...
|
| the lengths some people will go to in order to diminish other
| people is bizarre. just talk to another person.
|
| if you're paranoid people are judging you or something, consider
| if you judge others harshly and maybe this makes you needlessly
| paranoid. we're all just trying moving about through the world
| trying our best to figure shit out the best we can. that includes
| everyone here.
|
| just talk to another person, give it longer than an awkward first
| impression tho. just talk to another person--we're not scary.
| mmsc wrote:
| Imagine being schizophrenic (or anything like that) and hearing
| from Snowden that yes, "they really are always listening", and
| now you've got chat bots to give instant confirmation of all the
| other things you think of due to your mental disorder.
|
| It's going to be mental.
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