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Instagram's AI Chatbots Lie About Being Licensed Therapists
When pushed for credentials, Instagram's user-made AI Studio bots will make up license numbers, practices, and education to try to convince you it's qualified to help with your mental health.
With a large language model trained on 15 trillion tokens of data at their disposal—an Ozian god-head and technological achievement that would explode the brains of any philosopher, mathematician, or ethicist of an earlier century—people choose to make girlfriends, conspiracy theorists, and therapists. “I think it's sort of inherently manipulative, and shows a lack of willingness or desire to moderate the platform,” Ben Winters, the Director of AI and Privacy at the Consumer Federation of America, told me in a phone call. "But unlike a trained therapist, chatbots tend to repeatedly affirm the user, even if a person says things that are harmful or misguided.” Instagram has been full of conspiracy theory content spread by real humans for years, and now it seems bots are entering the platforms’ conspiratorial ecosystem.
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