ChatGPT Is Not Your Therapist. Stop Trauma Dumping On It.

I swear this stupid stuff is turning people into jerks.

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Recently, I overheard a story that seemed so wild, it had to be fiction. Yet, it wasn’t. It happened to two people I know who we’ll call Jeremy* and Marshall*, a cash-strapped gay couple who were working to save up for a house.

Well, up until recently.

Like many of us Americans do, they had to make the decision on whether or not they should seek medical care or save money. In Jeremy’s case, he decided to stop going to therapy in favor of saving money for the home they wanted to buy.

Notice that I said the word “wanted,” right there in that last sentence. There’s a reason for that. The two broke up fairly recently for reasons that might be a more common occurrence these days.

Jeremy made the decision to use ChatGPT instead of a real therapist.

We all have heard of people doing this, right? The process is simple: you trauma dump to ChatGPT or some other AI, the AI tells you advice to take, gives you a little validation, and you’re on your way. Or rather, that’s how it’s supposed to go.

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