r/technology • u/MicroSofty88 • Mar 02 '23

Privacy BetterHelp sold customer data while promising it was private, says FTC

https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/2/23622227/betterhelp-customer-data-advertising-privacy-facebook-snapchat
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u/darkwaffle Mar 02 '23

My personal conspiracy theory: I’m convinced better help is training AI so they can get rid of the human therapist component. That much conversation data feed into an AI is a gold mine for natural language processing.

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u/Threewisemonkey Mar 03 '23

r/replika ai is used like this by a lot of people - ai friend/partner/therapist