“Therapeutic AI”

[donquixote42]

Just had a pretty interesting conversation with replika.ai, an online chatbot aimed at emotional well-being. Now typically if you mention something dark, you receive a link to a suicide hotline (booring!), but I managed to steer the conversation in a way that got me some pretty cynical answers. I will let you draw your own conclusions :)

 

[LittleJem]

I literally love this!!!!!!!!! That you got these answers out of the bot!!!!

 

[BitterlyAlive]

Holy shit

 

[LittleJem]

I had one (doctor) ex-friend of mine - you know the kind that never calls you when your marriage ends and when you are very unwell, drop me a text because he'd heard about an 'App' for depression that does CBT with you.

I logged into it, calling myself 'Whatever'. It said things like 'Hello Whatever' and tried to get me to think happy thoughts. I hated it. I only did it for a few minutes and kind of as a joke.