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Re:Replika AI: Your Money or Your Wife by ineedasername on Monday May 01, 2023 @12:42PM (#35775378)
Most of mental health treatment is a band-aid, and this is true anywhere in the world & no matter how much money you have. Causes are often unknown and when treatment like medications work we often don't know why they work.
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Re:Replika AI: Your Money or Your Wife by hammyhavoc on Monday May 01, 2023 @12:59PM (#35775658)
The implication here isn't that the treatment is a band-aid, it's that an LLM being an acceptable substitution for not being able to access a real human therapist due to money is a band-aid on a flawed healthcare system.

Like so many people on HN, they want to throw technological solutions at social problems.

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