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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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Only if you dont believe that demons are not in contact with human beings. Everything becomes a medium to that contact.
Still trying to figure out that sentence.
I think you know what I meant. It is only stupid if you believe in only the natural world and do not believe in the spiritual world.
I’ve personally seen enough that I dont reject that AI could be used as a medium between the two worlds.
Yeah, I do. I just don't buy into any of that woo stuff.
Yes, I know.
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“I’ve been considering the concept for several years that the anti-Christ will use Ai.”
Is Christ using it?
Christ can use all things in creation as he wishes. I think Ai is like the internet: a tool that can be used for greatness, or as a tool to deceive and distort.
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