Encore: Is ChatGPT Your Therapist?
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🗓️ 9 July 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Candice Lim is joined by Dazed senior writer Laura Pitcher to discuss her piece, “Meet the people using ChatGPT as their therapist.” Since ChatGPT’s public release in late 2022, there has been a growing reliance on the artificially intelligent chatbot in people’s everyday lives. TikTok users are talking about the way they use ChatGPT as their therapist, their best friend, their life organizer, and more. But is reliant, daily use of an AI service worth possible consequences such as climate change, loneliness, and data privacy concerns? On today’s episode, ICYMI dives into the unexpected ways people have been using ChatGPT and whether we can predict its role in the near future.
This podcast episode was produced by Se’era Spragley Ricks, Daisy Rosario and Candice Lim, with production assistance from Alexandra Botti and Kat Hong.
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| 1:10.1 | in their daily lives. |
| 1:11.5 | And today, we are bringing back one of our favorite episodes with dazed editor, Laura Pitcher, |
| 1:16.9 | about how people have been using the AI chatbot as their friend, their confidant, and their therapist. |
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