The patient who experienced the latter affront, a 31-year-old Los Angeles man that Tech Review identified only by the first name Declan, said that he was in the midst of a virtual session with his therapist when, upon the connection becoming scratchy, the client suggested they both turn off their cameras and speak normally.
Instead of broadcasting a normal blank screen, however, Declan’s therapist inadvertently shared his own — and “suddenly, I was watching [the therapist] use ChatGPT.”
“He was taking what I was saying and putting it into ChatGPT,” the Angeleno told the magazine, “and then summarizing or cherry-picking answers.”
There has got to be some HIPAA issues with that.
yep
this was worse than I thought it would be
I could understand using it as a search tool. but straight up transcribing the session and using responses… that’s fucked up
Never go back. Report it as a ethics breech and seek to have any license they have revoked.
If I wanted LLM therapy I can get that without paying an absurd surcharge.
If the therapist really did this, sue him/her to kingdom come for breach of patient confidentiality.
there’s a potential since AI isn’t HIPAA compliant.
This seems like something you could get sued over, if not for misrepresenting your services, then for insurance fraud.
I wouldn’t consider any therapy delivered via zoom “therapy”.
Why not? They all started doing it during COVID, and most still offer it as an option.
It’s just my personal preference, and where I think the value in therapy is best found. Maybe it’s something as simple as the quality of the sound of someone’s voice in a real face to face meeting. Either way, I totally understand the difficulty that COVID made for this to happen, while simultaneously creating the situation in society where many more people needed therapeutic counseling.
I don’t mean to undervalue it for anyone else’s utility, it might work perfectly well for some.
Your original comment absolutely seems to be directed towards everyone, not just your personal preference. I mainly access therapy via video call, because I have a disability and my psychologist’s office is an hour each way from my house.
Your original comment absolutely seems to be directed towards everyone
I agree, that’s the reason I opted to clarify and acknowledge that I was being too general.
It works well enough if it’s an exception. Like once every six sessions or so. It’s super important to have face to face meetings though.
When she asked the therapist about the AI usage, she too owned up — and claimed that she’d used it because she had never had a dog before herself.
Dog?
Also, the article using the em dash just to fuck with us.
Em dash?
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It was a whole point in the article.
Everyone knows ChatGPT had a happy growing up with a cute lil doggy at home when he was young. Did you know he was millenial as well? He was born as soon as Clippy died, since that’s how reincsrnstion works.
/s
“Pros”. Yes.
why do i need such a therapist in the first place then? like, if i really wanted, i could just ask an LLM by myself💀
