Please don't recommend AI for therapeutic uses, it's only been optimised to keep the user engaged and pushed many people into psychosis. Just search for "ai psychosis" on your favourite search engine and you'll get a ton of reports on how LLMs validate vulnerable people's delusions, sometimes pushing them all the way into murder and/or suicide.

I hope you are not seriously advocating using the lying machine for therapy. You would get more value talking to a finger puppet.

No. Chatbots are machines built by billionaires with the agenda of making money. They litterally design these bots (even the therapeutic ones) to be sycophantic to the point they tell people anything to keep them chatting longer. To the point some of their users lose touch with reality. How many cases do we need of a chatbots helping a teenager plan and succeed at a suicide? Altruists did not design these machines. Even with a human therapist we have to watch for the landmines of their personal agendas. That's a thousand times worse for machines that have no humanity, are capable of LIES, and have secret unwritten priorites written into their code by rich sociopathic creators. If facebook taught us anything it should be that if something is free on the internet it's not because we are the customers.

Also DO NOT TELL ALL YOUR DEEPEST DARKEST SECRETS TO CHATBOTS! They aren't required by any legal bodies to protect that information! OMFG

People that need therapy are one of the groups that should be kept away from ai as fr as possible.

AIs are yes-man, they agree with most of what you say. You really think its a good idea to reinforce the bad worldview or sense of self someone that desperately needs therapy most likely has.

impoverished people need stable income and subsidized ration to reduce their burden. Not LLM subscriptions.

You can't use therapy to escape hunger.

JFC...there are already disclaimers on this. "For Entertainment Purposes Only".

Same excuse Fox News used.