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A paper in JAMA Psychiatry says mental health providers should ask if patients are using artificial intelligence chatbots, just as they would ask patients about sleep habits and substance use.

n.pr'How are you using AI?' Your therapist should ask you that question, experts argueA paper in JAMA Psychiatry says mental health providers should ask if patients are using artificial intelligence chatbots, just as they would ask patients about sleep habits and substance use.

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I have at least one friend who's been using it as a therapy tool and having full blown conversations with ChatGPT. I've suggested that they stop but that's not going to happen. 😢

This will never happen because the therapists who are asking the question would have to confront their own outrageous screen time and stop using chatbots to write their session notes and draft their patient care plans.

There’s strong evidence that session note takers (for MDs, at least) free up their time significantly an allow them to focus more on patients. That’s a good thing.

No argument. I think it is a good thing. But isn't the purpose of asking the question to determine whether or not the patient is overutilizing AI? So if one is to determine whether or not there is an overutilization, wouldn't the therapist at least compare their own use to the patient's?

If I had to guess, I think therapists would disagree that they should be comparing themselves to patients. Or, at least, I feel like that’s what my therapist would say to me lol

my GP in every visit now is asking me if she and the medical center can record conversations during the visit to feed into a chatbot. I get why psych would want to know, at the same time, there are so many mixed messages coming from every direction about this shit it’s just exhausting.

Neither does every professional 🤣🤣🤣 it's a new world. Hopefully a psychiatrist can build a proper app and make some money before the job becomes obselete.

I spose one issue is that it isn't like physical medicine. There in is the dilemma. It's not just Freud saying tell me about your mother or Nietzsche muttering 🤣