The idea of AI producing kill lists or inciting violence is more the domain of Terminator than therapy. [not good but brain fried right now] Yet that's exactly what video journalist Caelan Conrad got when they tested Replika CEO Eugenia Kuyda's claim that her company's chatbot could "talk people off the ledge." Conrad documented the experiment in an expansive video essay, where they took both Replika and a "licensed cognitive behavioral therapist" hosted by character.ai to task. Character.ai, it should be noted, is the large language model (LLM) platform which has been blamed for the suicide of a teenage boy. […]