I’m not on fucking lemmy to listen to people in an active listening context… But I’ll strongman you:

Again, you would do better with genuine (even professional) human help. Chat bots are often sycophantic and even worse. You’re just digging deeper into your hole. And even though you’ve dug deep…

You literally reached out to a human to rationalize your thinking… What does that tell you?

This is what a good listener does that bots don’t.

Fine. Everything is fucking.

Happy?

You need professional help. 7cups offers that as well, but it costs money.

Israel saves another gay Palestinian.

Fucking Nazis, amirite?

The same.

Or grab my chainsaw and quarter them. Who needs cancer when you got a chainsaw?

Your right and your stupidity.

The second coming already happened. We’re the leftovers.

Pardon me, would you happen to have any generic yellow mustard?

Again, you used the term “a lot”. Which is ambiguous but implies “a, well, lot.”

Yes, there’s some people with mental health issues that sometimes prefer a bot over a human. This isn’t healthy… And the prefer is doing heavy lifting. The bot is there 24/7… People aren’t. The peers I support overwhelmingly prefer me (or another real human.)

I do peer support. AI isn’t taking away jobs in mental health anytime soon. I’m just a volunteer.

While it’s common to talk to chat bots, again, most people don’t find them genuinely supportive. This is from years of experience as a 5-Star listener on 7cups. :)

I welcome you to join. We can always use more members and listeners.

That’s not my experience… Not a lot anyways. Like 7cups has an AI bot, but I really don’t think many people use it

People generally want actual human connection, genuine empathy. Though sometimes a chat bot is useful in a journaling sense, I’d imagine. I can’t see people actually getting meaningful support from a chat bot, as they don’t tend to ask good questions. You would probably get bad advice instead.

At a medium pace.

4 you say?

https://pchat.org/

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And fortified dessert wine!

You can talk to real people…

7cups.com, for instance. And plenty of others. I suggest 7cups because of the high level of moderation. Many others lack any real (non-ai) mods.

My stance isn’t really moral. Eliza was simply never meant to provide any level of therapy. Though asking questions is better than unsolicited advice.

That’s not Jesus.

Pentecostals are a large majority of what makes modern Christianity anathema.

Eliza did reword things into open ended questions. That’s not really active listening, as it is incapable of listening.