ok so people are using ChatGPT as their therapist now

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People are using ChatGPT as their therapists

“California content creator Taylor Mazza first used ChatGPT during her last semester of college around a year and a half ago. After a few months of using it for birth chart readings, she opened up to the chatbot about some personal issues. From that moment on, ChatGPT became her therapist.”

Ok, call me stupid (no don’t, I’m sensitive) but I really thought that of all the careers that would be safe from the AIpocolypse, therapists, counsellors, and psychologists would be right up there. Incredibly surprisingly - because this literally never happens - I was wrong. Turns out, people are turning to ChatGPT to ask for help with their friendships, uploading texts from their exes, or even just logging on when they need general advice about how to live a better life.

Honestly, I know this sounds dystopian, but the idea of having someone there - almost acting like a journal, to not solve your problems, but to help give you different ways of thinking about it, or different prompts to reflect on, isn’t the worst use case for this new tech.

This is an interesting use case: TikTok user Crystal Bright puts her favourite inspirational speakers, writers, and artists, and has conversations with it about how she can better live her life, in a tone that resembles people she looks up to.

Based on how expensive and inaccessible therapy can be, I don’t hate this, but like, I’m also not sure that we should be giving this unregulated technology this much insight into our inner thoughts, and psychological information. We already know that if technology is free, we’re paying for it in other ways, and I feel like this might be a case in point.

What do you think about this??

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