What's really crazy is therapists are starting to give their clients AI slop as part of their value-add, using it to create writing for clients to take away that resonates more with clients... and the AI is prompted without all the context known to the therapist so a bunch of the specifics and assumptions made by the AI in its advice don't track to other family/friends observing the output but do relate to some hypothetical pattern which doesn't apply.

Misdiagnosis from a therapist is not new, but AI use by the therapist is.

People have had itching ears to hear what they want to hear for a long time, and recently we have all seen in the press stories of AI-only therapy sycophanticly reinforcing delusions, but it is so strange to see a professional therapist human-washing such stuff.

But it makes sense; therapists are not yet savvy to all the weaknesses of LLM analysis and framing bias and they too can be tempted themselves to ask an AI and just pass outputs upwards like various work colleagues I've had...

Still, I was quite disturbed about the unprofessionalism of the therapist when I heard about it. I think we'll see this come up more in the press. like we've seen with lawyers. But not as soon because lawyers have a validation function called a judge.