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by miltonlost 290 days ago
Human therapists? Years of training, certification, can be de-licensed.

AI Therapists? No rules! Do what you want! Move fast, break people! (Except in Illinois. They fortunately banned AI use in therapy)
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ACCount37 290 days ago
It doesn't matter.

Even if "AI cannot legally do therapy", nothing would stop people from crying their soul out to a "Gangster Sponge Bob" persona on some "funny novelty chatbot" website.

What do you do about that?

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