A second barrier, is the difficulty in finding patient-therapist fit; IMO it's worse than trying to find a kidney donor, unless your problems are very mundane (litmus: does a Hallmark card cover this?)
So, access to real therapy is already hard to secure. Talk bots offer a convenient and affordable alternative. Most people will thus be fobbed off on bots that are also snitches, sycophants, and occasionally incite violence and self-harm, but that's what we have personal responsibility for, hmm? It's terribly convenient for mis-ascribing blame.
Finally, there is every reason to expect that for many people there is no "transference" or deep therapeutic emotional connection with LLM therapy, and, if there is one, it's an attack surface now.
In other words, the new "therapy" will be risky, ineffective, manipulative and sycophantic, so it will, in the best case scenario, do nothing, and in the worst, quite a bit of harm.
But it will be very popular. Like astrology.
But even in that case, I struggle to see how it's possible to have a deep connection with them. My life is their 45 minutes; it's just not possible for two humans to achieve given those constraints.
I'm guessing by attack surface you mean conversations will be turned to ads, right? Do you think that's a possibility given the intense competition between LLM vendors, including self-hosted options?
Finally, recall that the unique conditions that kept the USA from developing a culture of political disappearances and kangaroo courts seem to have ended. The state will love knowing who is thinking about abortion, for example, or attending a protest.
Just like it already does, but with so much more detail!
Right, do you mind expanding on this? I'm curious but I struggle to understand. Maybe if you have an example that might help.
However, the way I think about it is that people respond better to different way of communication, and knowing a person's preferred styled of communication will be helpful in helping a person open up and get to the root of issue.
I am a renegade of American Thought Control. In 2008 I was “press ganged” into the hooligan army of Power which infests the minds of Americans, and by proxy the world.
You are not the America you think you are, you are the America thought controlled. Thought controlled America, you are paid for in corruption, treachery, lawlessness, and lies.
The “ruling class” among you are not the oligarchs or the 1% of wealth and political connection, it is the voices in their heads. The voices in our heads.
A massive culture exists among us indoctrinated into this occult community of Power. These are responsible for the race hate, rise of white nationalism, even gender dysphoria and psychotic behavior of ordinary peoples.
We are not alone in our own minds, and only acknowledging this and determining to take responsibility for this estranged truth will pull us through our unsteady time.