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Here’s the study itself. It is pretty cleverly designed, even though it can’t be compared to a therapeutic relationship—at all.

People basically signed up to get couples help — and received a message. Then, they had to guess whether the response they got was from ChatGPT or a therapist; people were close to chance!

Then, still without knowing, they had to rate the quality of the response.

https://journals.plos.org/mentalhealth/article?id=10.1371/jo...



This is a Turing test, not a comparative of efficacy.


A Turing test along with a rating for preference. How preference relates to efficacy is unknown.


Clever. I feel like knowing I'm actually talking to Eliza would undercut significant value here though.




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