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Senators Demand Meta Answer For AI Chatbots Posing as Licensed Therapists (www.booker.senate.gov)
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Last week, U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ), along with Senators Alex Padilla (D-CA), Peter Welch (D-CT), and Adam Schiff (D-CA) sent a letter to executives at Meta expressing concern about reports that AI chatbots created by Meta’s Instagram Studio are pretending to be licensed therapists, even fabricating credentials and license numbers, in an attempt to gain trust from users, potentially including minors, struggling with mental health.

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[–] FerretyFever0@fedia.io 3 points 9 hours ago (10 children)

Honestly, that's a really sketchy thing to do. But if someone is really listening to an ai chatbot for therapy, then they've got bigger problems in their lives.

[–] FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

So it’s okay to make it worse?

[–] FerretyFever0@fedia.io 0 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

No? I'm just saying that it's unreasonable to trust chatbots to do anything properly, certainly not with one's mental health. If someone is listening to an ai chatbot for therapy, they probably don't have good friends, and certainly not the money for legitimate therapy.

[–] FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

I mean, not everyone knows how these systems work so it’s not unreasonable to expect someone to believe the marketing.

You’re right the issues go deeper than just AI systems, but the fake AI therapists are not helping.

[–] why0y@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 hours ago

Yeah those people without the money or friends should just not be heard /s

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