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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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[-] vane@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Does it mean that some people take orders from AI and don't know it's AI ?

[-] venusaur@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

One thing to note is that I’m pretty sure these are user-generated chatbots and not official Meta therapy chatbots.

[-] FerretyFever0@fedia.io -1 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] danzabia@infosec.pub 1 points 1 week ago

Perhaps some people can't afford it. I have the luxury of paying for weekly therapy but its probably one of my biggest line item expenses.

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