Gregory's Server
@baldur Even if an LLM could be scaled into something that actually worked flawlessly, I would prefer a human therapist. The therapist's role isn't just to dispense advice - that's not even the most important part of the therapist's role. The therapist's role is also to be a comforting human presence, and to be someone who can *understand* and relate to the perspective of the client.
@baldur I'm sure an LLM can ingest a lot of texts about childhood bullying and I'm sure you could tune one to dispense advice about coping with the trauma of childhood bullying - perhaps that advice could even be made helpful (and possibly even harmless). But it doesn't know what it feels like to be bullied as a child, because it never *was* a child, and it never got bullied and/or never bullied anyone. It can draw on a bunch of text-encoded aggregate human experiences, but has none of its own.