I made LLM therapist by fine-tuning an open source model using custom written and collected sessions in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). Data contains conversations that illustrate how to employ CBT techniques, including cognitive restructuring and mindfulness.

It is mostly focused on asking insightful questions. Note: It is not production ready product. I am testing it and gathering feedback.

You can access it here: https://poe.com/PsychologistLuna

Sorry that it is on Poe but this way it was much faster than making my own mobile friendly website.

Since it’s LLM, it is prone to hallucinate or give responses that might be perceived as rude. Please use it with caution.

  • BigBayesian@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Feedback: as others have noted, unless you live in a country where therapy isn’t regulated, this is a ticking legal time bomb. If you think no one at a company like Better Help has thought about building this, you’re wrong. The issues are:

    • Where’s legal liability when someone self-harms?
    • Where does your training set come from? Existing therapy log datasets that don’t mention the training of LLMs as a possible use case in the legal agreement that clients signed may not be usable in the way you’ve used them.
    • What’s your core hypothesis? That generating therapist-language has therapeutic value? Remember that the whole profession is about indirectly developing a model of what’s going on in someone else’s head, and then leading them to a conclusion based on that the therapist thinks may help them (this is reductionist and overly simplistic, but I think the point holds). This level of modeling and indirection seems poorly suited to a language-generator.