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ICYMI - Is ChatGPT Your Therapist?

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4.22K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2024

⏱️ 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 is produced by Se’era Spragley Ricks, Daisy Rosario and Candice Lim, with production assistance from Alexandra Botti and Kat Hong.


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0:00.0

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0:28.2

Bachelor life varies with you switching settings. Hey, I'm Candace Lim, and you're listening to Icy YMIMI.

0:47.1

And case you missed it, Slate's podcast about internet culture.

0:50.6

And joining me on today's episode is a senior writer for days.

0:53.9

It's Laura Pitcher. Hello, Laura.

0:56.3

Hi, thanks so much for having me.

0:58.3

Laura, we're so excited to have you because guess what? This is your first time on the show.

1:02.8

So first off, welcome, welcome. I did want to ask you. The question we asked all first time guess,

1:08.0

what's your first internet memory? The first thing that comes to mind are those games that you play on like the big household

1:15.0

computers in like the office, the shared one.

1:19.4

I think my first memory would be one of the games feeding frenzy and sneaking out of bed

1:25.1

at night and playing that game.

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