A few weeks ago, one of the biggest text-and-video therapy platforms in the US held an investor call. Its CEO wasn't talking about client outcomes. He was talking about inventory. The company has compiled roughly 8 billion words, 140 million messages, and 6.2 million assessments, pulled directly from actual sessions between real clients and real, licensed therapists on its platform. That corpus is being used to train an AI chatbot built to sit inside the therapeutic relations

𝗜𝘁'𝘀 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗽𝘂𝗿𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗲𝘀. I keep hearing this line now, from platforms, from therapists saying it back to themselves and to their own clients like it settles something. It settles nothing. Training whose model, for what eventual product, is exactly the question that sentence is built to make you stop asking. 𝗡𝗼. 𝗝𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗻𝗼. And it's not even the recording that should worry you most. It's the appetite it's landing i

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