fwiw my legible object-level opinion about 4o and ai chatbots vs mental health, as someone w bipolar who's been near suicide and through inpatient before llms, is that i wish i'd had a Claude or 4o around keeping me company when i was too depressed to talk to a human. i don't…
otoh i DO think modern therapy-speak is a cancer being propagated by llms, not because ai is bad but because our culture is sick with toxic individualism. it's a longer conversation and not particularly about AI, but i think AI may be an accelerant in applying the logic of…