What Does This Mean?
An AI chatbot used regularly as a stand-in for emotional support or informal therapy — venting, processing feelings, working through decisions — regardless of whether it was designed or marketed for that purpose.
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REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
"I know it's not a real therapist but I've genuinely been using it as my AI therapist for months now."
LORE & ORIGIN
Named plainly for the role people started assigning to general-purpose chatbots once they noticed themselves using one the same way they'd use a therapist, whether or not the tool was built for it.
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