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.
it's not therapy it's just bitching to something that can never disagree (because if it does you can just tweak it to be more "friendly"), it never gets tired, it never refuses to listen, is always friendly and has no mood, is available 24/7 and only costs a nominal fee. im sorry but if you're only going to therapy to vent you're doing something wrong.
granted not all therapists are good and in fact some are just outright worse than chatgpt, but the LLM is just a glorified parrot, everything you tell it to it throws back it you. stop suspending your disbelief it's not real it's not human it's not even intelligent it's just a number generator that produces words based on some probability. it'll never let you investigate the root cause of your problems it'll never push back it's just not right for this. but who am i kidding people that use AI ain't gonna read this if they wanted to read a rant they would just ask gpt to write one for them.
This is what people want, they've been doing the same thing at customer service workers forever without a shred of self reflection.