Rather than this Feeling Good app for patients, I’d be more interested in an app that let people practice applying CBT techniques to patient case studies(or maybe even LLMs with specified traits), in order to improve their empathy and help them better understand people. If this could actually develop good therapists with great track records, then that would prove the claims made in this article and help produce better people.
Interacting with a case study and interacting with a real person are quite different as far as empathy goes. If you train on making LLM feel understood that might not make a person feel understood if you do the same thing.
Rather than this Feeling Good app for patients, I’d be more interested in an app that let people practice applying CBT techniques to patient case studies(or maybe even LLMs with specified traits), in order to improve their empathy and help them better understand people. If this could actually develop good therapists with great track records, then that would prove the claims made in this article and help produce better people.
Interacting with a case study and interacting with a real person are quite different as far as empathy goes. If you train on making LLM feel understood that might not make a person feel understood if you do the same thing.