No, your AI doesn't care about you
Welcome to the edition where I'm tired of AI nonsense.
No, it can't make scientific discoveries.
No, it's not really thinking.
No, it's not helping you code faster.
It's probably not even fetching the URL you asked it about (check the server logs, my friend). Hell, it won't even take on an Atari 2600 in chess out of fear of losing.
The best it's got going right now is a wild penchant for giving itself a wild nickname and still getting a $200M government contract. (All the money hype can buy)
Most importantly, it doesn't love or even care about you. That one I'm not trying to be a jerk about. This is an earnest plea. Harvard Business Review reported therapy/companionship as the number one use case for AI in 2025. This is a big, capital P problem. People are being involuntarily committed or jailed after spiraling into "ChatGPT psychosis". You've not vibe coding into unlocking quantum physics or achieving spiritual awakening– you in danger, girl.
Of the many reasonable use cases for AI, therapy never made the list. Tarik Najeddine, a technical SEO by trade, a human by birth, and a nerd at heart, puts it well:
"Your counselor doesn’t string ideas together based on how they appeared on the internet from 1997 to 2023, and if you think they do, you need a better one. Humans need professionals who are able to diagnose, empathize, reflect, and evaluate. Each of those things are built on thinking, not replaced by thinking. And if the “thinking” is “run 40,000 transformations on these vectors,” it’s even less like how a clinical relationship is processed than the worst therapist on BetterHelp."
Tarik's article, Dr. Girlfriend and the Stochastic Chameleons, breaks it down so well. Chatbots have no skin in the game, no empathy. Even if you believe LLMs can think, they don't want you to get better. You are nothing more than an account ID measured in time on site.
To the real humans in your life, you're so much more than that. All the vectors in cyberspace could never amount to the all that is you. Be kind to yourself. Be smart enough to recognize a clever game.