But there still is a profit motive for the AI company to keep people in need of their AI therapist. Friends have much less of a profit motive to keep you unstable. They want you to be stable so you'll stop bothering them.
That's why I mentioned "General Purpose." Someone selling "AI therapists" will have a big incentive. But less so for ones without that focus. They won't care if you're happy, depressed, or curious about pandas as long as you're engaging.
But you're right about "AI therapists." They'll have the same incentives as normal therapists.
Well as the research shows, general purpose AI is commonly used for therapy and companionship. The AI companies know this and therefore have an incentive to keep their users lonely and unstable.
Devil's advocate: General purpose AI has less of a profit motive than a therapist or pharma company in keeping someone unstable.
Realistically though, it will probably end up hawking SSRIs after absorbing text from Reddit.
But there still is a profit motive for the AI company to keep people in need of their AI therapist. Friends have much less of a profit motive to keep you unstable. They want you to be stable so you'll stop bothering them.
That's why I mentioned "General Purpose." Someone selling "AI therapists" will have a big incentive. But less so for ones without that focus. They won't care if you're happy, depressed, or curious about pandas as long as you're engaging.
But you're right about "AI therapists." They'll have the same incentives as normal therapists.
Well as the research shows, general purpose AI is commonly used for therapy and companionship. The AI companies know this and therefore have an incentive to keep their users lonely and unstable.