YJ Kim
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@yjkim
Really appreciate the feedback!
The "scientifically backed" part would be the peer reviewed research that shows the effectiveness of hypnotherapy in inducing plasticity. It's too early for there to be actual research on AI based hypnotherapy vs regular, but as the AI voices (very quickly) become indistinguishable from reality, I don't see why there should be any difference. If anything, AI should be much more effective, because of the customizability and trustworthiness (an AI voice will simply read exactly what is in the transcript, whereas a human could show you a transcript and just say whatever they wish).
I really relate to you concern with the unethical stuff that happens in the practice of hypnotherapy. It's a really vulnerable position to be in, so it's very disturbing that some of these practitioners abuse the trust given to them. I think the determinate nature of using AI for your own session should make it easier for users to really surrender themselves fully.
"We can't see our own blind spots." That is so true. Actually the first version of the app I tried to have an onboarding process through an AI interview, but the chat models are still too...artificial. I do imagine it will be ready within a year. The only concern here was the users' privacy, because sensitive details would be stored/sent to the LLM providers.
Thank you for your concerns and feedback!
Some of the aforementioned research:
www.apa.org/monitor/2024/04/s…
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles…
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31251…
Ooof I'd just attached the mp4 as a file. Fixed it, thank you for pointing this out Ben! www.youtube.com/watch?v=48lXk…
Watched it - I think this would really benefit from you talking us through each screen instead of quickly zooming through each workflow, it was a bit hard to follow
Record yourself talking over this video and put your face in the bottom left/right - you can use Loom to do something like that