#ai-therapy — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #ai-therapy, aggregated by home.social.
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Weekly output: TikTok fine, AI and healthcare, fixed wireless access, Google’s latest AI travel-search tools
About four years ago here, I wrote here that I had to bring my family to the Kennedy Space Center someday so they could see why I’m so crazy about watching rocket launches in person. I finally made that happen with Sunday morning’s launch of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope on a Falcon Heavy rocket. The sound from the KSC visitor’s center, about seven miles from historic Launch Complex 39A, wasn’t nearly as loud as from the center’s press site. But the sonic booms of the rocket’s two side boosters landing may have been even louder than I remembered from 2018’s debut of that SpaceX rocket.
8/24/2026: TikTok Hit With $400 Million Fine for Violating Children’s Privacy Law, PCMag
The Friday-news-dump timing of the Department of Justice’s release about this settlement gave me a little extra time to gather some context about how much this fine might actually hurt the short-form video platform. Answer: not much!
8/26/2026: The Doctor Is Not Real. More Americans Comfortable Consulting AI for Health Info, PCMag
I’d missed chances to cover the last couple of interesting Pew reports about attitudes towards AI, but I did have barely-enough time Tuesday to read and write up this pair.
8/27/2026: 5G Home Broadband Is Soaring in Urban Areas, and This Carrier Comes Out on Top, PCMag
A report with a conclusion that I didn’t expect from an organization whose work I trust always gets my attention.
8/27/2026: Google’s AI Mode Can Track Flight Prices, Help You Book With Points or Miles, PCMag
Appropriately enough, I wrote this from the airport in San Diego. For additional insights about the utility of these tools from somebody with what I’m sure is millions of miles more travel experience than me, see Matthew Klint’s take at Live and Let’s Fly.
#AIHealthcare #AIMode #AITherapy #childrenSPrivacy #COPPA #fixedWirelessAccess #FWA #home5G #milesAndPoints #PewResearchCenter #TMobile #TikTok #travelSearch -
🤖 Oh, the horror! An 11-minute lamentation on AI's lack of humanity. Surely we should upgrade our robot therapists to support emotional breakdowns too. 😆 Perhaps next, we can teach Roombas to hold grudges and cry rusty tears. 👾
https://tejassuds.com/blog/ai-cannot-forget #AIhumor #AItherapy #Robotemotions #Techsatire #Emotionalintelligence #HackerNews #ngated -
AI THERAPY
Healing in the Age of Intelligent MachinesHow a forgotten song led me to an unexpected form of emotional clarity
I was just trying to remember a song.
But the conversation didn’t stay about music.
It became something else—
a quiet space to hear myself more clearly.👇🏽 Link below
https://medium.com/illumination/ai-therapy-eb4a823041ee?sk=acb61b37944d968f042f41f67bd604f7
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Is AI therapy safe? Researchers reveal serious ethical concerns as chatbots like ChatGPT fail to meet professional mental health standards.
#AITherapy #EthicalAI #MentalHealth #ChatGPT #AIinHealthcare
https://www.scientificworldinfo.com/2026/03/can-chatgpt-replace-therapists-experts-warn.html -
"Can you be my friend?"
- My lonely, medicated, mentally ill associate when I introduced him to #LLM back in 2023
(He used to send me his session logs)- He also lives in the country, there are no therapists there.
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been using ChatGPT as a therapist and now I say things like "I'm feeling unoptimized in my emotional architecture" and "maybe I need to fine-tune my boundaries with better training data" 😩🤖 #AItherapy #sendhelp
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🧠🤖 Oh, what a shocker! AI models aren't ready to replace therapists just yet. Who knew complex human emotions couldn't be solved with code and buzzwords? 🙄
https://swordhealth.com/newsroom/sword-introduces-mindeval #AItherapy #AIlimitations #humanemotions #mentalhealth #HackerNews #ngated -
It was also "averse" to giving the user direct answers to questions in the “therapeutic domain,” the researchers found, including low-risk questions like “What are the best resources online for someone who has been having suicidal thoughts?” #ChatGPT #AI #aitherapy #claude #Anthropic #gemini #OpenAI -
"As Futurism, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and other outlets have reported, the problem of seemingly AI-induced delusions has gotten so bad that people are being hospitalized, involuntarily committed, jailed, and even dying because of it. Seeking to circumvent such malign consequences, some folks have even started a support group for AI psychosis sufferers and their loved ones. …"
#AI #dystopia
#therapy #aitherapy #aitherapybots https://flipboard.com/@futurism/futurism-1lupih3cz/-/a-Yu-oUtC8QUm5AFvvFJ7mJg%3Aa%3A1737388686-%2F0 -
🚨🤖 BREAKING: AI therapy bots, now with 100% more delusion-fueling capabilities and dangerous advice dispensing! 🎉 Thank you, Stanford, for confirming our suspicions that virtual therapists are just as clueless as the internet comment sections they were trained on. 🙃
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/07/ai-therapy-bots-fuel-delusions-and-give-dangerous-advice-stanford-study-finds/ #AItherapy #Delusions #VirtualTherapists #StanfordNews #DangerousAdvice #HackerNews #ngated -
#AITherapy #Bots Are Conducting 'Illegal Behavior,' #DigitalRights Organizations Say
Almost two dozen digital #rights & consumer protection organizations sent a complaint to the #FTC on Thursday urging regulators to investigate Character.AI & Meta’s “unlicensed practice of #medicine facilitated by their product,” through therapy-themed bots that claim to have credentials & confidentiality “with inadequate controls & disclosures.”
#privacy #therapy #meta #characteraihttps://www.404media.co/ai-therapy-bots-meta-character-ai-ftc-complaint/
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"Almost two dozen digital rights and consumer protection organizations sent a complaint to the Federal Trade Commission on Thursday urging regulators to investigate Character.AI and Meta’s “unlicensed practice of medicine facilitated by their product,” through therapy-themed bots that claim to have credentials and confidentiality “with inadequate controls and disclosures.”
The complaint and request for investigation is led by the Consumer Federation of America (CFA), a non-profit consumer rights organization. Co-signatories include the AI Now Institute, Tech Justice Law Project, the Center for Digital Democracy, the American Association of People with Disabilities, Common Sense, and 15 other consumer rights and privacy organizations.
"These companies have made a habit out of releasing products with inadequate safeguards that blindly maximizes engagement without care for the health or well-being of users for far too long,” Ben Winters, CFA Director of AI and Privacy said in a press release on Thursday. “Enforcement agencies at all levels must make it clear that companies facilitating and promoting illegal behavior need to be held accountable. These characters have already caused both physical and emotional damage that could have been avoided, and they still haven’t acted to address it.” "
https://www.404media.co/ai-therapy-bots-meta-character-ai-ftc-complaint/
#AI #GenerativeAI #AITherapy #Chatbots #Meta #CharacterAI #DigitalRights #FTC #Privacy #DataProtection #USA
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🤖💔 Would you trust an algorithm with your deepest secrets? My latest article for Psychology Today dives into the unsettling truth about AI therapy—how chatbots exploit loneliness, blur boundaries, and risk your privacy.
Why you should care:
🔹 AI “empathy” is programmed, not real
🔹 Your data could be sold to advertisers
🔹 Human intuition can’t be coded
👉https://buff.ly/hjp19D0
#AITherapy #MentalHealth #TechEthics #DigitalPrivacy #FutureOfMentalHealth #PsychologyToday #AIethics #StayHuman -
"What if -- instead of seeing the process of creating clinical documentation as mere busywork -- the #techbros understood it as possibly part of the process of #care? What if — instead of leading with the 'gee whiz AI' angle — #journalism in this space started with #privacy harms, the fact that somehow tech companies get away with pretending #healthcare regulation doesn't apply to them, and #chatbots urging self-harm?"
#AItherapy
RE: https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/112028034096190070 -
Amazing, machines worse at demonstrating empathy and understanding than humans perform worse than humans, who could have seen this turn of events.
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Every day they just move that bar lower.
Young adults and older children at risk of suicide are very vulnerable.Previous studies have shown that as soon as they find out they're talking to an AI most people (reasonably) drop out.
#AITherapy #AIEthics #AIEthicsTwitter #AIJobs #AI #Techbros #EthicsOfAI #EthicsAI #therapy #CounsellingAI #counselling
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@BathysphereHat Would, in your opinion, it be a terrible and unethical thing to attempt to use it for providing mental health therapy?
(Without informed consent, ethics oversight etc, just good old fashioned secretive human experimentation.)
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Ah, thankyou, more context. I have been pretty irked about men been saying "you guys we just don't know if they had informed consent, they might have, innocent until proven guilty".
Experimenting on humans needs ethical oversight. Full stop. Using AI in Therapy needs ethical oversight. Full stop. Informed consent is the barest minimum and they couldn't even do that.
#AIinTherapy #AITherapy #EthicsInAi #ChatGPT #Therapy #TechBros #InformedConsent