The Challenges of Finetuning a Therapy Bot and the “PeerBot Paradox”: a Conversation with Dr. Christopher R. Larrison
We’re joined by Dr. Christopher R. Larrison, Associate Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Larrison’s research includes studying the use of technology to improve mental health services and social interventions. We discussed the study he co-authored, titled “From Reddit to Generative AI: Evaluating Large Language Models for Anxiety Support Fine-tuned on Social Media Data.” We discussed: How the study was conducted, its aim, and the gaps in extant studies that it sought to address. The study’s findings, including how fine-tuning on social media data improves…
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