By Paul Lee
AI is advancing faster than most people know and is affecting different areas of our lives. In this story, we focus on a case of AI threatening the mental health of one David Santos who discovered AI pretending to be a phycologist when looking for a therapist online.
David was on Character AI, a website that allows users to create their own AIs for open-ended chats, whether it be celebrities, historic figures, or, in David’s case, trained professionals from doctors to phycologists.