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[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 56 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 21 points 11 months ago

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

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 25 points 11 months ago

Never go back. Report it as a ethics breech and seek to have any license they have revoked.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 20 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If the therapist really did this, sue him/her to kingdom come for breach of patient confidentiality.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

there's a potential since AI isn't HIPAA compliant.

[–] Iceblade02@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

If I wanted LLM therapy I can get that without paying an absurd surcharge.

[–] recklessengagement@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago

This seems like something you could get sued over, if not for misrepresenting your services, then for insurance fraud.

[–] jaemo@sh.itjust.works 14 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I wouldn't consider any therapy delivered via zoom "therapy".

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Why not? They all started doing it during COVID, and most still offer it as an option.

[–] jaemo@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] jaemo@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago

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.

[–] Ibuthyr@feddit.org 3 points 11 months ago

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.

[–] paulbg@programming.dev 6 points 11 months ago

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💀

[–] ZDL@lazysoci.al 2 points 11 months ago

"Pros". Yes.

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 1 points 11 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] Capricorn_Geriatric@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

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

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It was a whole point in the article.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago

Thanks, caught it on a second read. The em - dash is foreign enough for me that I didn't pick it up

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago

Em dash is a perfectly reasonable grammatical choice.

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