In other news, a million people use openai???
this post was submitted on 28 Oct 2025
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Sounds like we should shut them down then to prevent a health crisis then.
And does ChatGPT make the situation better or worse?
This is the thing. I'll bet most of those million don't have another support system. For certain it's inferior in every way to professional mental health providers, but does it save lives? I think it'll be a while before we have solid answers for that, but I would imagine lives saved by having ChatGPT > lives saved by having nothing.
The other question is how many people could access professional services but won't because they use ChatGPT instead. I would expect them to have worse outcomes. Someone needs to put all the numbers together with a methodology for deriving those answers. Because the answer to this simple question is unknown.
The anti-AI hivemind here will hate me for saying it but I'm willing to bet $100 that this saves a significant number of lives. It's also indicative of how insufficient traditional mental health institutions are.
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On the decentralised platform, with everyone from Russian tankies, to Portuguese anarchists, to American MAGAts and everything in between on it? If you say so...
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Apparently, "suicide" is also a disproportionally common search term on Bing as opposed to other search engines. What does that say about Microsoft?
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I mean… it’s been a rough few years
Not very informative. I want to know what percentage is the us and if it increased in the last year.
So they want to play the strategy that they are relevant