This is offensive to me totally and completely #news #ai #therapy
Your next therapy session could be with an AI bot https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/dartmouth-researchers-look-meld-therapy-apps-modern-ai-rcna146558
@MATAK79 I wonder if this is related to that recent unscrupulous project that was advertising to buy secret recordings of therapy sessions. It was obviously for AI scraping purposes.
@_L1vY_ oh wow didn’t even know that happened. I did read something about better help or another of those online therapy things sharing data though. My doc suggested them and I said hell no.
@MATAK79@stranger.social @_L1vY_@mstdn.social
You told your doctor why you said "hell no"? Not every doctor that recommends a given service knows about some services' fuckery.
This is absolutely true -- healthcare professionals rarely understand cyber-security. For example, I used to recommend the Calm App (and occasionally still do). But then... what do they do with all that health data they consider "non-medical"? And... I believe they are the ones that later launched a health services division including psychotherapy...
@reederm @ferricoxide @_L1vY_ it puts somebody like me in the position of second-guessing my own judgment. When we are drawn to the convenience and efficiency of moving things, remote online, etc. yet every single time I do that, I don’t want to second-guess if my information is safe or being sold or used to build AI. There’s clearly. A lot I don’t know about it as well.
Not perfect, but as a rule of thumb you could install the privacy badger plug-in and check how many 3rd party cookies it stops as a gauge of how privacy conscious or caring a given site is.
@reederm@qoto.org @MATAK79@stranger.social @_L1vY_@mstdn.social
Always great when badger lights up with several hundred trackers…
Wow, I think my record is around 23.
FYI -- webmd.com is one of the worst.
Ferricoxide -- That is an AMAZING number of blocked 3rd party cookies!!
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The worst site was 530-something. I've ad a few in the 200s and 300s. Most are in the 1- to 3-dozen range.
The worst offenders tend to be "best of " when I'm trying to make buying-decisions (usually an indication that the probably scraped their content rather than actually doing their own, real research). Similarly, a lot of tech-sites pop up a bunch (especially the ones that seem to prefer offering video content rather than detailed text-based content).