You don't have to be stupid to fall into this, you just have to be vulnerable. This type of shit can cause permanent damage to someone's mind and these companies simply do not give a shit about us.

I feel the same about being poor. Being poor isn't a moral failing. And it can happen to just about anyone. It can and most of the time does cause permanent damage to the mind and the body. But there are plenty of people who do view poverty as a moral failing, and help to wage a class war that only profits the rich.

The difference here is, often, when you are poor you don't have a choice. People don't live in poverty by choice. But people often do use LLM'S for therapy and mental health by choice. They have been warned it's dangerous. But it's kind of like when you see fire trucks whiz past you on your way home. You hope everyone is okay, but you never think it's your house that's on fire.

And when it inevitably burns them, they often don't have any support structure in place to help. Which compounds the damage.

An argument could potentially be made that the people who use them this way don't have a choice because the healthcare system is so bad in the US, and mental healthcare especially is so unavailable, even to those who have healthcare, but most of these people also recognize on some level that they are nothing more than a product for these companies and these companies are not their friend.

So even though I generally agree with you, I also recognize that it's not so cut and dried as "scorning people who use them" is wrong. Because we aren't going to convince law makers that they need to be regulated, but we can try to dissuade people from using them.

I don't think straight up saying "you're a fool if you use Gen AI LLM'S " does any good, but I can certainly understand why after you've told people it's a bad idea a million times you might get fed up. Human nature.