Loneliness and suicide mitigation for students using GPT3-enabled chatbots
Npj mental health research, 2024
L4of 5
- Design
- Cross-sectional survey
- Risk of bias
- Some concerns
- Sample
- n = 1,006
- AI type
- Companion / social AI apps
- Outcomes
- Loneliness, Self-harm
Authors' conclusion
“Critically, 3% reported that Replika halted their suicidal ideation. A comparative analysis of this group with the wider participant population is provided.”Quoted verbatim from the abstract.
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Read the paper →DOI 10.1038/s44184-023-00047-6Related
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