Including someone just yesterday who said they’ve STOPPED SEEING THEIR PSYCHOLOGIST and are ONLY USING CHATGPT for therapy now.
This shit is genuinely dangerous. “AI” therapy got me feeling like 
bro fr.
Deteriorating material conditions + expensive mental healthcare options + LLMs that recommend tall bridges to suicidal people, what a fucking great recipe
That’s without even getting into the privacy concerns of telling your deepest feelings and secrets to a fucking chatbot that literally builds a profile on you. Someone else said to me recently that they basically use chatgpt to journal so it knows everything about them and their friends and god knows what else. So yeh, take comfort in the fact that even if you’ve never interacted with this dogshit, it could probably still have a deep profile on you because one of your dumbass friends decided to use it as a diary because LLMs just agree with everything you say and are very validating.
You interact with it the same way you do most human interaction nowadays, through text chat. And unlike human interaction it's completely immediate, it has vast amounts of knowledge compared to almost any human and it never tires of interacting with you. It's always there for you, unlike actual human beings, it "gets to know you" better than most human beings, you can tell it things you wouldn't tell human beings.
AI will never leave you.
I really don't think there's much of a surprise why people are so attracted to these things. As with so many of capitalist inventions, nobody would find a need for these things if we didn't live in a world in which the chasm between human being gets wider and deeper every day and the weight placed upon them gets heavier and heavier at the same time. The difference between interacting without a real human friend that lives on the other side of the country through text and interacting with ChatGPT might bé neglegible for a lot of people.
That's certainly the pitch, but that's not really what it is in practice, is it? It responds to your questions completely immediately, at a clear cost to the environment and even people's access to water and electricity; it has vast amounts of knowledge, which is to say it possesses knowledge that any human could get from just skimming the first few results of a web search and then confidently bullshitting the rest; it never leaves you nor tires of you, and it's always by your side, in much the same way as an anime body pillow is; and it gets to know you as you tell it things you'd tell nobody else, because you're feeding your most sensitive information into foreign data centers, where your information might come up in other people's chats, if it doesn't literally get leaked without your consent.
I would see the appeal if it worked exactly as the pitch says, but it doesn't. People are deluding themselves to their own detriment.