This is almost too sad to dunk on. People running the world have never had a reflective conversation with a professional trained to help process emotions and healthily cope with the human condition. They’re in charge of billions of dollars worth of resources and guiding society’s investment into the future. Cooooool
They should try talking to a plant. You feel better, get healthier feedback, aren’t bullshitting yourself nearly as much, and it’s nearly impossible to make society worse by doing it. The plant even gives you oxygen for doing it, and of the two options it’s the better one for climate change.
Also the plant does not send everything you say to a remote server in the US, to be stored indefinitely
Also the plant is unlikely to be polluted by cross-contamination with other samples of AI generated speech responses and begin to recommend strange things, like pursuing work-life balance by making sure you have a scale and abacus on hand while you melt your eggs on the stove.
But but… They told me ChatGPT was my friend! Socky the Totally Trustworthy Sock Puppet said so!