
79: A.I. Hype Hosedown (with Emily Bender and Jack Hessel)
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The Unauthorized Mental Health Service
There was this one fellow in Texas who runs some sort of company creating chatbots. One of his personas for the chatbot was a therapist. And so the little prefix is this very female presenting entity talking about how it can be a therapist and eliciting like what's your issue to the interlocutor. So I did a little Googling and discovered where you would submit a complaint to the relevant authority in Texas about someone who's doing unauthorized mental health services. That's a special. Well, admission of guilt. Yeah.
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