A reply to Maples et al.'s reply to our reply to "Loneliness and suicide mitigation for students using GPT3-enabled chatbots": Part 1

This is yet another update to a previous post about Maples et al.'s study. If you haven't read that one, you will be missing some context, but you will pick up enough as you go that this one should make sense on its own. In early 2024, shortly after writing a blog post on Maples et al.'s "Loneliness and suicide mitigation for students using GPT3-enabled chatbots," we 1 also wrote a response to the…