I did a thing in class last semester where I opened every lecture with a slide titled Today in AI Fails. I’d leave the screengrab on the screen and just watch the room read them. I’d keep it there until the giggles and titters started. I thought of it as playing the long game of making a point. I figured, last night, that maybe I should do that again theis term, starting today. <\/p>\n
And after I saw this story<\/a> this morning, I realized I’ll probably be doing this for as long as I teach. <\/p>\n Declan would never have found out his therapist was using ChatGPT had it not been for a technical mishap. The connection was patchy during one of their online sessions, so Declan suggested they turn off their video feeds. Instead, his therapist began inadvertently sharing his screen.<\/p>\n “Suddenly, I was watching him use ChatGPT,” says Declan, 31, who lives in Los Angeles. “He was taking what I was saying and putting it into ChatGPT, and then summarizing or cherry-picking answers.”<\/p>\n Declan was so shocked he didn’t say anything, and for the rest of the session he was privy to a real-time stream of ChatGPT analysis rippling across his therapist\u2019s screen. The session became even more surreal when Declan began echoing ChatGPT in his own responses, preempting his therapist. <\/p>\n “I became the best patient ever,” he says, “because ChatGPT would be like, ‘Well, do you consider that your way of thinking might be a little too black and white?’ And I would be like, ‘Huh, you know, I think my way of thinking might be too black and white,’ and [my therapist would] be like, ‘Exactly.’ I’m sure it was his dream session.”<\/p>\n Among the questions racing through Declan’s mind was, “Is this legal?” When Declan raised the incident with his therapist at the next session\u2014”It was super awkward, like a weird breakup”\u2014the therapist cried. He explained he had felt they’d hit a wall and had begun looking for answers elsewhere. “I was still charged for that session,” Declan says, laughing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The answer to Declan’s question might be, probably not, as an entire secondary market<\/a> is emerging around the platform’s security.<\/p>\n I may be using that particular story in a few weeks as an AI and human fail. As in, do you want to pay for this? Do you want to pay a professional for this? Then why would you use it yourself? Because that is a thing that is happening, too<\/a>. And to sometimes horrible outcomes<\/a>, we should add.<\/p>\n The whole point, as the program told Dr. Josh Pasek last month, is to keep you in the conversation, and nothing more. “My training prioritizes flowing, engaging dialogue …”<\/p>\n If you want to understand why it can\u2019t seem to self correct on how many Bs are in blueberry, and why that is so dangerous:<\/p>\n [image or embed]<\/a><\/p>\n — Josh Pasek (@joshpasek.com<\/a>) August 7, 2025 at 10:47 PM<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n