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> An AI app for trauma survivors sounds superficially laudable

It sounds like a dystopian horror to me

At least in the US trauma therapy is commonly unavailable to people due to expense. Moreso the common stigmas around therapy can make it difficult to start the conversation, either due to fear or cost. On top of that quite often free or cheap therapy here in the US is provided by religious groups with their own, unwittingly sinister, motivations. Adding religious trauma to sexual trauma doesn't help in my eyes.

The dystopian horror is already here for a lot of people.

Maybe some people would prefer that. Not everyone will happily open up to another human, especially when people are the reason for the trauma...

Talking directly to the surveillance state is so much better?

True, local LLMs might be a better idea for this particular purpose.

Most self-hosted services are generally a better idea, if you know what you're doing.

I think being a victim of sexual violence and only talking into the ether with no response is much more dystopian horror to me.

Why would it happen though? If A.I is not good enough or won't be good enough it would fail and the company providing the service would go under. If it is good enough, it will succeed. Or is your issue not with the A.I responses themselves but with the fact it is not conscious like a human is?

Personally I use Gemini sometimes to talk about my mood, didn't get a bad experience yet.

The unbiased objective analysis can be quite helpful.

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