Holy shit. Reading this made me physically ill. Talkspace basically created a honeypot: Here, have the convenience of a text based psychotherapy session. Just don't look over in that corner where we are using your innermost thoughts & emotions to make an AI therapist bot.
Like, the therapy wasn't even the point. The patients were just training data.
FUCK AI & all the techbros that come with it.
I saw recently someone say that folks turning to AI for mental health advice is analogous to starving folks eating tree bark. Powerful stuff, and a rebuke of our healthcare system as well as AI.
By the way, did you know Talkspace has trained an AI model off of the private interactions of patients and clinicians using their platform? It's true. Worse yet, now all of that is under subpoena.
https://myprivacy.blog/talkspace-therapy-transcripts-court-ai-training/