{"id":25852,"date":"2026-04-17T10:49:58","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T14:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25852"},"modified":"2026-04-17T10:50:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T14:50:01","slug":"your-new-therapist-chatty-leaky-and-hardly-human","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25852","title":{"rendered":"Your New Therapist: Chatty, Leaky, and Hardly Human"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Darius Tahir for KFF Health News)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vince Lahey of Carefree, Arizona, embraces chatbots. From Big Tech products to \u201cshady\u201d ones, they offer \u201csomeone that I could share more secrets with than my therapist.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He especially likes the apps for feedback and support, even though sometimes they berate him or lead him to fight with his ex-wife. \u201cI feel more inclined to share more,\u201d Lahey said. \u201cI don\u2019t care about their perception of me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are a lot of people like Lahey.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/ai-chatbots-therapy-big-risks-few-regulations\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/ai-chatbots-therapy-big-risks-few-regulations\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health polity news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"17\" class=\"wp-image-21118\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image.png 500w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-300x34.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Darius Tahir for KFF Health News) Vince Lahey of Carefree, Arizona, embraces chatbots. From Big Tech products to \u201cshady\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,17,48],"tags":[153,930,884,91],"class_list":["post-25852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","category-emerging-health-issues","category-mental-healthbehavioral-health","tag-ai","tag-emerging-healthcare","tag-healthcare-redesign","tag-mental-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25853,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25852\/revisions\/25853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}