About 1 in every 8 U.S. teenagers and young adults turns to artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots for mental health advice, a new study says.
AI bots offer a cheap and immediate ear for younger people’s concerns, worries and woes, researchers wrote in JAMA Network Open. However, it’s not clear that these programs are up to the challenge, researchers warned.
“There are few standardized benchmarks for evaluating mental health advice offered by AI chatbots, and there is limited transparency about the datasets that are used to train these large language models,” investigator Jonathan Cantor said in a news release. He’s a senior policy researcher at RAND, a nonprofit research organization.
The new study follows on a report that OpenAI is facing seven lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to delusions and suicide, according to The Associated Press.
I’m not sure a lot or even many of them are kids, lemmy is a bit of an older crowd I’ve gathered, anyways while of lot of them ring true for some people, when every one of them is something you do sometimes without even thinking about it. There were a lot of people who slipped through the cracks in my generation (genx) and no doubt many others because our behaviors weren’t recognized by ourselves or adults as anything abnormal. I’m struggling quite a bit now. I do agree with you that is probably happening a lot too, but on the other hand there’s been an abundance of undiagnosis. Thank you for the kind words about my post, maybe there’s some hope for me yet haha.