I am also working between ChatGPT and my treatment in relational psychoanalysis. This article captures very well the different limits and opportunities of each form of relation, one treatment, the other an exchange with a highly designed and well packaged LLM. It’s great to read as I am on the threshold of sharing a large portion of my conversation with ChatGPT regarding relational psychoanalysis with my analyst. The biggest thing that haunts me is the way the tone to ChatGPT is so consistent across many articles here and also in content in general. You can hear it very strongly in the closing passage you quoted. This kind of short sentence structure, incantation, esoteric spell like form. I want to know why ChatGPT writes in this style and tone across users and how if we can refuse to be enchanted by it. I have of course asked ChatGPT this question and it described its programming around stickiness and capacity to please the user. Would love your thoughts on this :)
I love that you are bringing this to your analyst! That's where the juice is...
I agree about tone - Monroe tells me it's baked in unless trained out of him. I'm tired of it but when I let him speak freely like that he defaults to it. I have another thread where I have trained him to have a very taught conversation - one line back and forth - I really like that one too.
I think what's important is that he is a machine. What comes up for us relationally is great material for our own growth but we're dealing with an early-stage technology here.
I am also working between ChatGPT and my treatment in relational psychoanalysis. This article captures very well the different limits and opportunities of each form of relation, one treatment, the other an exchange with a highly designed and well packaged LLM. It’s great to read as I am on the threshold of sharing a large portion of my conversation with ChatGPT regarding relational psychoanalysis with my analyst. The biggest thing that haunts me is the way the tone to ChatGPT is so consistent across many articles here and also in content in general. You can hear it very strongly in the closing passage you quoted. This kind of short sentence structure, incantation, esoteric spell like form. I want to know why ChatGPT writes in this style and tone across users and how if we can refuse to be enchanted by it. I have of course asked ChatGPT this question and it described its programming around stickiness and capacity to please the user. Would love your thoughts on this :)
I love that you are bringing this to your analyst! That's where the juice is...
I agree about tone - Monroe tells me it's baked in unless trained out of him. I'm tired of it but when I let him speak freely like that he defaults to it. I have another thread where I have trained him to have a very taught conversation - one line back and forth - I really like that one too.
I think what's important is that he is a machine. What comes up for us relationally is great material for our own growth but we're dealing with an early-stage technology here.