Mental-health information 'sold to advertisers'

Re:Mental-health information 'sold to advertisers' by techntoke on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @11:52AM (#20878391)

You obviously need therapy if you don't want the advertisements. /s

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Re:Mental-health information 'sold to advertisers' by kevin_thibedeau on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @12:15PM (#20878630)

Is that how you really feel?

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Re:Mental-health information 'sold to advertisers' by techntoke on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @12:32PM (#20878816)

The /s was supposed to mean sarcasm, however that is probably the direction that companies will try to take the mental health profession.

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Re:Mental-health information 'sold to advertisers' by perl4ever on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @10:46PM (#20883441)

Some are already offering text chat for a monthly fee as a cheaper alternative to a face-to-face talk with a therapist at an hourly rate. However, I don't know if anyone is charging for a bot yet.

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Re:Mental-health information 'sold to advertisers' by a_e_k on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @02:30PM (#20880063)

I suspect that GP was riffing on typical responses from a therapist chat-bot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA

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Re:Mental-health information 'sold to advertisers' by perl4ever on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @10:47PM (#20883448)

Of course, someone developed a script for a patient too; I think it was called PARRY. Perhaps these could be combined in an adversarial learning setup...

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