Discussion Suicide hotline shares data with a for-profit spinoff

[Touhou]

Suicide hotline shares data with for-profit spinoff, raising ethical questions

The Crisis Text Line’s AI-driven chat service has gathered troves of data from its conversations with people suffering life’s toughest situations.

www.politico.com

Thoughts?

So nice to know that even in my deepest, darkest moments, Big Tech is there to monetize my pain and suffering and condense my overwhelming anguish into a data point on their way to global control and surveillance of the entire human race. People can't even kill themselves in peace anymore.

 

[FadingSunshine]

It's really weird to me how they're building tech based off the suffering of people at their lowest. I'm also wondering what do people think about an ai therapist? If they're too inhuman now, what about in the future when they can fully simulate human feelings?

 

[TheHuman]

Oh wow the people who are supposed to be "helping us" are really just in it for themselves how noble of them. I just can't say I'm supprised since the only reosn they want us alive is so that we can remain a slave to capitalism, the reasons like "oh you have so much to live for" are just pure BS like live 50% of our sad misrible lives working like Jesus that is just so stupid.

 

[Holu]

I truly have no issues with ai. I like it, am not overly concerned or threatened by it, and use it occasionally. That being said, I already refuse to see a therapist and under no circumstance am I ever gonna talk to a fucking ai therapist.

But hey, if it ultimately works for some people then it's all good for me so long as it's not just a glorified doxing wellfare check bot

 

[UKscotty]

Therapists and suicide lines are a waste of time anyway.