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Aside from the tragic story, the article has some really nice photography.
These stories always focus on a vulnerable person, but what is the chatbot optimizing for?? It wants you to keep talking. Longer sessions, more training data, better engagement numbers. A therapist has a professional reason to make you need them less. ChatGPT has the exact opposite incentive baked in