{"id":617074,"date":"2026-04-19T12:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T12:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/617074\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T12:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T12:24:07","slug":"the-therapist-in-your-pocket-chatty-leaky-and-ai-powered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/617074\/","title":{"rendered":"The therapist in your pocket: Chatty, leaky \u2014 and AI-powered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"ZBC2OM4SNJGPBKSAV4AEPP7J7Y\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">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<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"AUVXZUP5PZD6NPXNSTCWPV724U\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vince Lahey of Carefree, Arizona, embraces chatbots. From Big Tech products to \u201cshady\u201d ones, they offer \u201csomeone that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":617075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[64,63,137,500],"class_list":["post-617074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-health","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}