• Barbecue Cowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    26 days ago

    Around non-specifically 50% compared to as high as 29.999% doesn’t seem like a huge delta. I wonder what the real number on both is.

    Edit: Looks like it was 52.4 and 29.1 respectively. The numbers on how much they trust the responses later in the article might be more worrying.

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      26 days ago

      That’s because you don’t understand the numbers. 30% to 50% means it’s actually 66% more common for girls.

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        26 days ago

        And with the actual numbers of 52.4% and 29%, its closer to 80% increase in how much women trust the responses. That’s a huge delta, what is driving that

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          26 days ago

          Random uninformed guess: women are on the whole more open to sharing their problems to begin with. So it’s probably less “teenage girls turn to AI with their problems while men go to therapy” and more “men continue to avoid talking about their problems to anyone, including LLMs”.

          It is worrying that social interactions and support are getting delegated to algorithms at such high rates but I’m not convinced there is a significant gender gap to be explained on the technology level. Dudes probably ask the word prediction machine plenty about cars, tech, or weird conspiracy theories.