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Therapy Chatbot Tells Recovering Addict to Have a Little Meth as a Treat (futurism.com)

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[–] ImADifferentBird@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The problem is, these companies are actively pushing that false perception, and trying to cram their chatbots into every aspect of human life, and that includes therapy. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ced2ywg7246o

[–] Gorilladrums@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

That's because we have no sensible regulation in place. These tools are supposed to regulated the same way we regulate other tools like the internet, but we just don't any serious pushes for that in government.