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Patients Use AI Personas to Impersonate Their Therapists
Original: Using An AI Persona To Impersonate Your Therapist So You Can Get Inside Their Head
Forbes reports on a growing practice in which people build AI personas designed to imitate their own therapists, letting them generate responses between sessions or probe how their therapist might think. The trend raises ethical and privacy questions, as it involves feeding sensitive therapy details into AI tools and replicating a professional's style without consent. Commentators are weighing the psychological risks of simulating a therapeutic relationship this way.
Why now: It highlights a new and controversial use of AI that blurs ethical boundaries around privacy and mental health care.
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