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.
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.