New benchmark shows top LLMs struggle in real mental health care

Re:New benchmark shows top LLMs struggle in real mental heal... by imiric on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @11:30AM (#46219792)

Playing devil's advocate, many people die using all kinds of tools. It doesn't make the tools any less useful for people who use them responsibly.

That said, the idea that a pattern recognition and generation tool can be used for helping people with emotional problems is deeply unsettling and dangerous. This technology needs to be strictly regulated yesterday.

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Re:New benchmark shows top LLMs struggle in real mental heal... by tim333 on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @04:54PM (#46224420)

If you use 300 million people, 2 years and the US suicide rate of 15/100k/yr you'd expect about 90,000 people who'd used LLMs to kill themselves anyway so it's hard to conclude much from the dozen or people listed in the Wikipedia article. 90k deaths seems a lot to me - maybe there are possibilities for good LLM assistance/therapy to improve things?

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