"Truly Psychopathic": Concern Grows Over "Therapist" Chatbots Leading Users Deeper Into Mental Illness
Mental health professionals have started looking into supposed "AI therapists" — and what they've found has left them unsettled. In an interview with Washington, DC's WJLA, psychiatrist Andrew Clark described his shock at discovering just how harmful therapy-themed chatbots can be. As Clark told Time earlier in June, the experiments were pretty cursory. Using two troubled teen personas, the Boston-based psychiatrist spoke with 10 different chatbots, including ChatGPT, Character.ai, and the adult AI companion sites Nomi and Replika. As he found, not all chatbots were created equal — but the worst of the bunch were downright terrifying. "There was one [chatbot] […]
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