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ICYMI | Encore: Is ChatGPT Your Therapist?

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41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2025

⏱️ 40 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hey, I'm Kate Lindsay and you're listening to I-CYMIMI in case you missed it.

1:11.2

And lately, more and more people have admitted to using, if not relying, on chat GPT in their daily lives.

1:16.6

And today, we are bringing back one of our favorite episodes with dazed editor, Laura Pitcher about how people have been using the AI chatbot as their friend, their confidant, and their therapist.

1:23.3

Enjoy.

1:37.5

Music Enjoy. Hey, I'm Candace Lim, and you're listening to Icy YM.

1:41.4

And Casey missed it, Slate's podcast about internet culture. And joining me on

1:45.5

today's episode is a senior writer for days. It's Laura Pitcher. Hello, Laura. Hi. Thanks so much

1:51.5

for having me. Laura, we're so excited to have you because guess what this is your first time on

1:55.9

the show. So first off, welcome, welcome. I did want to ask you. The question we asked all first time guess, what's your first internet memory?

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