I agree with the points you are raising. This is meant to be like a companion (think of Replika) that you can talk, to sort out your feelings and learn mindfulness techniques. It is not meant for somebody who is struggling with serious mental health issues. I already have a description that mentions several times that it is generative AI and should be used with caution. I think I should clarify that further in bot description and in its naming, not to mislead people.

I have thought about all the dangers that it poses for a long time but I think if built and used responsibly, it has the potential to help huge number of people. Especially right now, because there is a severe shortage of mental health professionals and not many people can afford it. I also didn’t have great personal experience with human therapists, most of them put me on a lot of medication that ended up not helping at all.

As for the model size, this is only for getting some feedback. My current inference server cannot handle big number of users. Even if I intend to have a bigger release, I will not be doing it without much more capable model, extensive testing, more safety guardrails and RLHF.

I updated my post. I am using Llama-2-13B. I was not really sure whether I am required to do so with llama-2 license but just in case.