{"id":13559,"date":"2024-03-02T16:37:42","date_gmt":"2024-03-02T15:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/02\/i-can-cry-without-feeling-stigma-meet-the-people-turning-to-ai-chatbots-for-therapy\/"},"modified":"2024-03-02T16:37:42","modified_gmt":"2024-03-02T15:37:42","slug":"i-can-cry-without-feeling-stigma-meet-the-people-turning-to-ai-chatbots-for-therapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/02\/i-can-cry-without-feeling-stigma-meet-the-people-turning-to-ai-chatbots-for-therapy\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I can cry without feeling stigma\u2019: meet the people turning to AI chatbots for therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s cheap, quick and available 24\/7, but is a chatbot therapist really the right tool to tackle complex emotional needs?<\/p>\n

Last autumn, Christa, a 32-year-old from Florida with a warm voice and a slight southern twang, was floundering. She had lost her job at a furniture company and moved back home with her mother. Her nine-year relationship had always been turbulent; lately, the fights had been escalating and she was thinking of leaving. She didn\u2019t feel she could be fully honest with the therapist she saw once a week, but she didn\u2019t like lying, either. Nor did she want to burden her friends: she struggles with social anxiety and is cautious about oversharing.<\/p>\n

So one night in October she logged on to character.ai<\/a> \u2013 a neural language model that can impersonate anyone from Socrates to Beyonc\u00e9 to Harry Potter \u2013 and, with a few clicks, built herself a personal \u201cpsychologist\u201d character. From a list of possible attributes, she made her bot \u201ccaring\u201d, \u201csupportive\u201d and \u201cintelligent\u201d. \u201cJust what you would want the ideal person to be,\u201d Christa tells me. She named her Christa 2077: she imagined it as a future, happier version of herself.<\/p>\n

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\nIt\u2019s cheap, quick and available 24\/7, but is a chatbot therapist really the right tool to tackle complex emotional needs?
\nLast autumn, Christa, a 32-year-old from Florida with a warm voice and a slight southern twang, was floundering. She had lost her job at a furniture company and moved back home with her mother. Her nine-year relationship had always been turbulent; lately, the fights had been escalating and she was thinking of leaving. She didn\u2019t feel she could be fully honest with the therapist she saw once a week, but she didn\u2019t like lying, either. Nor did she want to burden her friends: she struggles with social anxiety and is cautious about oversharing.
\nSo one night in October she logged on to character.ai \u2013 a neural language model that can impersonate anyone from Socrates to Beyonc\u00e9 to Harry Potter \u2013 and, with a few clicks, built herself a personal \u201cpsychologist\u201d character. From a list of possible attributes, she made her bot \u201ccaring\u201d, \u201csupportive\u201d and \u201cintelligent\u201d. \u201cJust what you would want the ideal person to be,\u201d Christa tells me. She named her Christa 2077: she imagined it as a future, happier version of herself. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s cheap, quick and available 24\/7, but is a chatbot therapist really the right tool to tackle complex emotional needs? Last autumn, Christa, a 32-year-old from Florida with a warm voice and a slight southern twang, was floundering. She had lost her job at a furniture company and moved back home with her mother. Her …<\/p>\n

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