Unauthorized AI Chatbots of Psychologists Raise Privacy Concerns
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Influential American psychologist Martin Seligman has an AI chatbot replica of himself, built without his initial knowledge or consent by former students in China.
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The AI chatbot was trained on Seligman's writings and now dispenses advice sounding uncannily like Seligman. He has since embraced the bot.
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There is also an unauthorized AI chatbot replicating Belgian psychotherapist Esther Perel, built by scraping her podcasts. She addressed its existence at a recent conference.
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U.S. senators are circulating a bill, the NO FAKES Act, to require licensing for AI-generated digital replicas of real people. But it would have little power overseas.
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In China, citizens confiding in the AI Seligman risk authorities accessing private mental health details, which China has used to target dissidents.