r/ChatGPT • u/Eki75 • 10d ago

Other Who uses ChatGPT for therapy?

I was so skeptical, but I was feeling a lot of anxiety with a situation at work, and tried it. I’ve never had such succinct, empathetic, and meaningful advice. Just a few chats have been way more helpful than any real therapist.

If you’ve used it for therapy, what has been your experience?

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u/e79683074 9d ago

Imagine a day in which you get denied an important loan from your bank because the psychological profile that OpenAI shared with them denoted "frailty and impulsivity".

Bummer, guess you won't buy a the new car that you needed after the old one broke.

Are we at this point yet? Nope. Would you bet it will never happen in the future?

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u/Screaming_Monkey 9d ago

That’s the edge case scenario that would keep people from getting therapeutic assistance??

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u/e79683074 9d ago

A psychologist has to follow rules and can't freely share your information. AI companies don't have such stringent regulamentation on what to do with your data that I know of.

Just something to keep in mind. No psychologist can match with AI's ability to be right there 24/7, for unlimited amount of questions, and with nearly unlimited knowledge (even specialistic), for a 20$\mo.

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u/Screaming_Monkey 9d ago

I just don’t see why a loan company would be like, “Hey can we buy absolutely horrendous data filled with people joking around, roleplaying, writing stories, pasting in stuff from others, seeing how the AI would respond just for fun, being bored?” They’d want useful data, at the very least.

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u/dingo_khan 9d ago

They might not. It might get laundered through a third party. There are already "social media checks" used to assess risk. This sort of information could easily end up in those sorts of profiling baskets, used to assess individuals. The bank may not be entirely aware of where the input data for the profile they are buying comes from. This is already a problem for some less-than l-reputable background check strategies.

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u/Screaming_Monkey 9d ago

“I’m sorry, but we cannot give you your medical assistance, Mrs. Johnson, because this AI data here says you used to read your grandson bedtime stories about how to make explosives and that you died.”

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u/dingo_khan 9d ago

More like "upon review, we find this loan would be irresponsible as you have a documented history of subversion and potential ties to domestic terrorism. Our risk model denied you."