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would you ever do AI therapy?
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yes
no
i’m not sure
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Anonymous 6d

I mean I’m not opposed to the idea. If it was an offline LLM on my personal laptop, so I’m not venting my personal drama to a database owned by a megacorp

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Anonymous 5d

Not for me but I wouldn’t be surprised if it becomes popular due to the expensive alternative of seeing real people

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Anonymous 6d

I talk to myself. I can trust me

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Anonymous 5d

i would never stoop so low

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 6d

It doesn’t work offline

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 6d

I think it can be helpful to the extent that talking to one’s self can be helpful. Like I wouldn’t expect the LLM to be able to generate any advice or guidance of a value that a therapist could offer, but it can be good for just engaging in conversation to get you to share more “out loud” (and in turn reflect more)

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 6d

Your computer can’t even store an llm, let alone process the data

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 6d

False. There are plenty of models that can fit and be run on a personal computer. To offer an example: https://www.reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/1i6h705/got_deepseek_r1_running_locally_full_setup_guide/

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 6d

Can’t click that

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 6d

You’re free to Google, but please don’t spread misinformation when you’re not sure. But to name just a few that can all be run locally: - Mistral 7B (7.3B parameters) - Gemma 2B (2.6B parameters) - Vicuna 7B (7B parameters)

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 5d

There are a ton of videos on how to self-host your own LLM.

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 5d

Real, I was looking into therapy in my area and everywhere was north of $125 😭

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