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Re:LLMs should not replace therapists by aleph_minus_one on Sunday July 06, 2025 @07:09PM (#44484973)
> You only need to look at the kind of advice reddit gives for any kind of relationship questions to know this is asking for trouble.

This depends on the subreddit.

Re:LLMs should not replace therapists by BeetleB on Tuesday July 08, 2025 @01:06AM (#44497260)
Suggest good ones, perhaps?

All the ones I've seen are terrible. But that's likely because I don't subscribe to them and they are large enough to occasionally show up on Reddit's front page. Anything that shows up on the front page is crap.

The point, though, is that the LLM likely has a larger exposure to the larger subreddits than the better smaller ones, and perhaps is more likely to reflect the attitudes of the larger ones.

Re:LLMs should not replace therapists by pringk02 on Tuesday July 08, 2025 @07:34AM (#44499049)
Even if that is true, the LLMs have still be trained on all of the subreddits