(2025-04-15) Gat I'm Now Fully Sold On New ChatGPT-4o Memory Becoming Everybody's Therapist

Anna Gat: I’m now fully sold on new ChatGPT 4o + memory becoming everybody’s therapist in like the next 2 minutes. Just based on 4 days of interaction, it is astounding: 1) It can give you as good a Big 5 analysis after a few conversations as an official test.* (mental health)

I asked it to remove all flattery and for every opinion to be "red teamed" too, and to "remove any self-care bullshit". I had a 4-day conversation, on and off, about a variety of things. First of all, this led to at least 3 very helpful insights — they came from me, but the experience definitely sped it up, it pushed me to make leaps that would otherwise have been slower.

5) It was pretty good on extreme low agreeableness (I guess me asking for it to “remove any self care bullshit” multiple times helped

But NB: I'm hearing from friends that Claude Pro is also very good at this stuff, so this is not me comparing it to others — just comparing ChatGPT to its own previous incarnations.

6) A huge plus is that, unlike therapy which is always one-sided (we’re much more connected to each other than that!!), you can ask ChatGPT to do the same query and analysis but from someone else’s point of view, pr as an objective report, etc. This is HUGE.

This is what novelists do!!!!
My whole experiment with Interintellect has been to do something I learned to do in fiction (theater/film dialogue, structure, dramaturgy) for real people

7) LLMs will happily lead to not just a decline in the charlatan parts of psychotherapy but also in divinations. People go to fortune tellers and similar for exactly this type of information.