*Shitty start-up LLMs should not replace therapists.
There have never been more psychologists, psychiatrists, counsellors and social worker, life coach, therapy flops at any time in history and yet mental illness prevalence is at all time highs and climbing.
Just because you're a human and not an llm doesn't mean you're not a shit therapist, maybe you did your training at the peak of the replication crisis? Maybe you've got your own foibles that prevent you from being effective in the role?
Where I live, it takes 6-8 years and a couple hundred grand to become a practicing psychologist, it really is only an option for the elite, which is fine if you're counselling people from similar backgrounds, but not when you're dealing with people from lower socioeconomic classes with experiences that weren't even on your radar, and that's only if, they can afford the time and $$ to see you.
So now we have mental health social workers and all these other "helpers" who's just is to do their job, not fix people.
LLM "therapy" is going to and has to happen, the study is really just a self reported benchmarking activity, " I wouldn't have don't it that way" I wonder what the actual prevalence of similar outcomes is for human therapists?
Setting aside all of the life coach and influencer dribble that people engaged with which is undoubtedly harmful.
LLMs offer access to good enough help at cost, scale and availability that human practitioners can only dream of.
There have never been more psychologists, psychiatrists, counsellors and social worker, life coach, therapy flops at any time in history and yet mental illness prevalence is at all time highs and climbing.
Just because you're a human and not an llm doesn't mean you're not a shit therapist, maybe you did your training at the peak of the replication crisis? Maybe you've got your own foibles that prevent you from being effective in the role?
Where I live, it takes 6-8 years and a couple hundred grand to become a practicing psychologist, it really is only an option for the elite, which is fine if you're counselling people from similar backgrounds, but not when you're dealing with people from lower socioeconomic classes with experiences that weren't even on your radar, and that's only if, they can afford the time and $$ to see you.
So now we have mental health social workers and all these other "helpers" who's just is to do their job, not fix people.
LLM "therapy" is going to and has to happen, the study is really just a self reported benchmarking activity, " I wouldn't have don't it that way" I wonder what the actual prevalence of similar outcomes is for human therapists?
Setting aside all of the life coach and influencer dribble that people engaged with which is undoubtedly harmful.
LLMs offer access to good enough help at cost, scale and availability that human practitioners can only dream of.