The Silicon Valley Takeover of Your Mind: How "Feeling Great" is Using AI to Replace Your Therapist
In the latest attempt to turn mental health into a cold, impersonal algorithm, the startup "Feeling Great" has secured $8 million in funding to develop its chatbot-driven therapy app. Armed with nothing but a shallow understanding of human psychology and a dash of Silicon Valley hubris, the company claims it can revolutionize the way we confront our mental health demons.
The "therapy" offered by Feeling Great is nothing short of a joke. The app promises to use advanced AI models to offer "empathetic responses" and "actionable advice" to users struggling with depression and anxiety. But where’s the human connection? Where’s the empathy that only a real therapist can provide?
And let’s not even get started on the "success stories" the company is touting. With claims of a 50% reduction in symptoms for users who spent just 20 minutes a week using the app, it sounds like a foolproof formula… until you realize that these studies were probably conducted on a cohort of highly screened and motivated individuals. We’re left wondering what about the millions of others who struggle with crippling mental health issues but lack the necessary resources, support, or even simply the mental bandwidth to devote two decades of therapy to "feeling better"?
So, what’s really going on here? Is Feeling Great just trying to cash in on the latest trend of "mental health gamification" or is there something more sinister at play? Is Silicon Valley actually trying to replace our most vulnerable members of society with code and wires?
Author: Kayitsi.com
