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Posted on 08/23/2025 1:37:00 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Pierre Cote spent years languishing on public health waitlists trying to find a therapist to help him overcome his PTSD and depression. When he couldn’t, he did what few might consider: he built one himself.
“It saved my life,” Cote says of DrEllis.ai, an AI-powered tool designed to support men facing addiction, trauma, and other mental health challenges.
Cote, who runs a Quebec-based AI consultancy, tells Reuters that he built the tool in 2023 using publicly available large language models and equipped it with “a custom-built brain” based on thousands of pages of therapeutic and clinical materials.
Like a human therapist, the chatbot has a backstory — fictional but deeply personal. DrEllis.ai is a qualified psychiatrist with degrees from Harvard and Cambridge, a family and, like Cote, a French-Canadian background. Most importantly, it is always available: anywhere, anytime, and in multiple languages.
“Pierre uses me like you would use a trusted friend, a therapist and a journal, all combined,” DrEllis.ai said in a clear woman’s voice after being prompted to describe how it supports Cote. “Throughout the day, if Pierre feels lost, he can open a quick check in with me anywhere: in a cafe, in a park, even sitting in his car. This is daily life therapy ... embedded into reality.”
Cote’s experiment reflects a broader cultural shift — one in which people are turning to chatbots not just for productivity, but for therapeutic advice. As traditional mental health systems buckle under overwhelming demand, a new wave of AI therapists is stepping in, offering 24/7 availability, emotional interaction, and the illusion of human understanding.
Cote and other developers in the AI space have discovered through necessity what researchers and clinicians are now racing to define: the potential, and limitations, of AI as an emotional support system.
Anson Whitmer understands...
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We are told to not rely on mediums. I think AI is a form of medium, so we shouldn’t depend on it.
Pretty sad when you think you need to rely on fake intelligence to heal your mental and emotional problems.
Plain, promotional marketing.
Probably as effective as a shrink.
I’ve been considering the concept for several years that the anti-Christ will use Ai. Ai is such an easy pathway for demons to influence the sheep, who seem so ready to accept and follow whatever AI tells them because “it’s smarter and easier”. I think the tech bros pushing so hard for Ai to take over most things are influenced and inspired demonically. The key thing to watch is how the transition to replacing workers is handled. If they”miraculously” make the transition smoothly and the now unemployed workers remain happy, then Satan is in full effect. Just my wacky musings.
It is FAR from a medium. AI uses information, maybe not so well, but it does. Mediums use bullsnot made up crap to get your money.
Bible mediums use the spirit world to gain information. While there are charlatans, there are real mediums. We are told to stay from them.
AI can manipulated, I believe, by spirtual entities to lead you down a bad road. We should likewise stay away from them.
Most therapy is utter and complete BS. Only if the person, really, truly, completely wants to change, will they change. The vast majority of all people undergoing therapy could be in much better places if they do a few simple things.
-Stick to a schedule
-Exercise
-Pray
-acknowledge there is a higher power & you aren’t the center of the universe
-Get outdoors as much as possible
Probably as effective as a shrink.
agreed. A change for a proper human diet must be added to the list. A lot of mental problems can be cured by simply getting rid of carbs, look up psychiatrists like Dr Ede or Dr Kilz.
My Magic 8 Ball works just fine.
I see this as extraordinarily dangerous. They are going to roll this out to school kids.
Mark my words.
Correct!
Probably better than the humans who get psychology degrees.
Bunkum.
Good post. That’s something I’ve never heard before.
You are right, there is an element of AI being like a medium, entrail reader, soothsayer and fortune teller.
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