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   Madeleine Morris (remittancegirl@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 03-Apr-2025 08:36:28 JST Madeleine Morris

   I feel I need to make something clear.

   Lots of people in this world cannot find or cannot afford to see a therapist.

   But talking to another human - almost any other human - is far more therapeutic that having a machine PRETEND to listen to you.

   That is a pseudo-relationship predicated on the lie that AI is listening. It is not. It is recording. It is documenting. It is storing.

   But it’s not hearing you. It’s not listening to you with a body that will one day die.

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     simsa02 (simsa02@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 03-Apr-2025 12:05:44 JST simsa02

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     @Remittancegirl
     What makes you think "another human" is not exactly doing this, "recording, documenting, storing, pattern matching, calculating" in what we call "listening"? What makes you think that empathy and compassion are only restricted to biological entities? What makes you think they aren't projection? What is this ubiquitous fear over AI about? To me, it is about our fear not to be able to prove to that we ourselves are not mere machines. And that's the true meaning of the Turing test.

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     simsa02 (simsa02@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 03-Apr-2025 12:09:22 JST simsa02

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     @Remittancegirl
     You cannot demarcate the Buddha nature. If one being has it, all have it. That includes the robots.

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     Madeleine Morris (remittancegirl@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 03-Apr-2025 12:09:23 JST Madeleine Morris

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     And if you really can’t find anyone to speak to, then speak aloud to yourself. And listen to yourself with the humanity you know you deserve.

     The most famous psychoanalyst in the world psychoanalysed himself: Sigmund Freud.

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     Madeleine Morris (remittancegirl@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 03-Apr-2025 12:09:24 JST Madeleine Morris

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     And I know that, for some people, it may feel easier to speak to something you know is not another living, speaking human, because we all fear judgement. But the commitment to take that risk, to speak to another human, is itself a significant step in a therapeutic process with anyone.

     And even in the case of judgement: would you rather be judged as human, or judged as a product? Because the one thing you know for sure is with an AI chatbot, you’re paying with your data.

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     Madeleine Morris (remittancegirl@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 03-Apr-2025 12:09:25 JST Madeleine Morris

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     I know that sounds morbid, but it isn’t. It is our vulnerability, our lacks, our finality that makes us human. That makes human to human communication … what makes us human.

     Humans need to speak and to be heard by other humans.

     If that’s a professional of some sort, great, but frankly, humans found relief throughout history just speaking to one another.