from Hacker News

AI mental health companion with GPT-4o-like real time voice chat

by sweca on 8/5/24, 3:10 AM with 5 comments

  • by reify on 8/5/24, 6:10 AM

    As an old retired psychotherapist I find this obscene.

    We therapists work within the human relationship, the unspoken, with thoughts, behaviours and feelings, with incremental changes in facial expressions, voice intonation and body language. Congruence and empathy. The ability to be real.

    We have a lifetime of personal therapy and supervision to protect our clients from our unresolved shit.

    who is going to protect those clients from AI?

    AI will never be able to do any of those things.

  • by ungreased0675 on 8/5/24, 3:11 AM

    Is this safe? How do you know?