In other words, it doesn't teach you to function in the world and relate to others. Psychologist Jonathan Shedler put it this way : “So this chatbot always cares, is always on your side, and always available - and asks nothing of you in return. Therapy challenges your beliefs, and helps you get to some deeper points about your beliefs, how they came to be and why they led you down a path that turned out not so good. ChatGPT has no ideas to express of exchange, and it doesn’t convey information - it conveys synthetic text in “information-shaped sentences”, as Neil Gaiman put it -, and it doesn’t communicate because communication always requires an understanding partner. “Talking” in the Mirriam-Webster-dictionary is defined as “to express or exchange ideas by means of spoken words” and “to convey information or communicate in any way (as with signs or sounds)“. But this is not therapy, or therapeutic, or psychotherapeutic, at all - it’s a machine following commands in a stochastic manor that simulates talking. I didn’t take this exercise seriously, but still i was astounded by the reassuring effect even this short exercise had on me. It confirmed by beliefs and my views on what happened and i actually felt reassured for two or three minutes. I used ChatGPT as a shallow form of therapeutic counceling once and asked it about some malaise i had with some people. ‘Mental health support is based on talking therapy, and talking is what chatbots do’”. In the piece, some Dr Marsden “says he is excited about the power of AI to make therapeutic chatbots more effective. The BBC asks Would you open up to a chatbot therapist?
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