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Re:'It cannot provide nuance': UK experts warn AI therapy ch... by ekianjo on Saturday May 10, 2025 @09:31PM (#43950501)
Experts have a direct and obvious inventive to justify their existence. Radio experts warned us about TV. TV experts warned us about the Internet. If you live long enough you see it over and over again
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Re:'It cannot provide nuance': UK experts warn AI therapy ch... by sweetjuly on Saturday May 10, 2025 @09:40PM (#43950539)
The existence of a similar contradictory example does not disprove the original point. It's okay to be suspicious and cynical, but nuance is still important.

Assuming that anyone who has anything to gain by you believing them is out to get you is rash and leads you only to those who are more willing to lie about their motivations. Yes, doctors and Big Pharma (tm) are financially motivated to sell you cures, but the guy selling you a juice cleanse ""at cost"" for your cancer is still not trustworthy.

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Re:'It cannot provide nuance': UK experts warn AI therapy ch... by ekianjo on Saturday May 10, 2025 @10:53PM (#43950926)
> Yes, doctors and Big Pharma (tm) are financially motivated to sell you cures, but the guy selling you a juice cleanse ""at cost"" for your cancer is still not trustworthy.

Two things can be true at the same time. Don't trust anyone because nobody is transparent about their incentives. Your doctor does not disclose to you that they were at a congress in Hawaii for company X when he prescribes you to use company X drug for your ailment.

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Re:'It cannot provide nuance': UK experts warn AI therapy ch... by kelseyfrog on Saturday May 10, 2025 @10:49PM (#43950902)
It's terrifying that this applies to doctors, teachers, firefighters, and entrepreneurs.
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Re:'It cannot provide nuance': UK experts warn AI therapy ch... by ekianjo on Saturday May 10, 2025 @10:51PM (#43950916)
We were not talking about engineers so thanks for your strawman
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Re:'It cannot provide nuance': UK experts warn AI therapy ch... by kelseyfrog on Sunday May 11, 2025 @12:47AM (#43951470)
Maybe we live in different worlds. I see all of those professions justifying their existence. That's exactly why we should distrust them. They have an incentive to do so.
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Re:'It cannot provide nuance': UK experts warn AI therapy ch... by musicale on Sunday May 11, 2025 @12:54AM (#43951514)
> TV experts warned us about the Internet

If they warned that it could become a distillation of the worst aspects of television... maybe they weren't wrong.

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Re:'It cannot provide nuance': UK experts warn AI therapy ch... by krainboltgreene on Sunday May 11, 2025 @01:05AM (#43951566)
Brother you just described every worker.
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Re:'It cannot provide nuance': UK experts warn AI therapy ch... by harvey9 on Sunday May 11, 2025 @03:23AM (#43952049)
This reads like an attempt to restate the buggy whip idiom. It doesn't work well even though your point has some merit.
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