Your Therapist’s Notes Could Become Fodder For AI
jacobin.com
Tech companies are marketing AI-based note-taking software to therapists as a new time-saving tool. But by signing up, providers may be unknowingly offering patients’ sensitive health information as data fodder to the multibillion-dollar AI therapy industry.
  • PennyRoyal@sh.itjust.works
    7·
    26 days ago

    Ha, nope, because I internalise my trauma with destructive coping strategies due to being unable to afford a therapist, like a real man (or woman, or gender of choice, being fucked up doesn’t have gender-based borders)

  • medem@lemmy.wtf
    4·
    26 days ago

    That looks EXACTLY like Backroom Casting Couch, I’m sorry 😂😂😂.

  • plz1@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    25 days ago

    Cool, so do we get to sue the therapists for HIPAA violations, the AI company, or both? “I didn’t know” isn’t a legal defense, last I checked.

  • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world
    3·
    26 days ago

    Aren’t the ethics rules that notes are only for the therapist?

    Not even clients get to see their own notes.

    That said, I dated a therapist once. And she was glad to share with me the notes on her patients. Lots of unethical therapists out there.

    • iii@mander.xyzEnglish
      4·
      26 days ago

      that notes are only for the therapist?

      They might think that they’re doing so, yet still use onedrive / google docs. Ignorance - inexcusable ignorance if you ask me - but sadly not rare.

    • BanMe@lemmy.world
      2·
      26 days ago

      Law now says clients have to be given access to their notes, you can probably access them through a web portal or by asking. That said I do not encourage people to do so regularly because it creates the wrong kind of feedback loop where you’re trying to influence the notes instead of following your therapist’s (hopefully) guidance.

      But HIPAA rules apply to notes, for instance the therapists I support have 365 HIPAA or better (self hosting has its own problems and most therapists aren’t scaled for it).

  • BanMe@lemmy.world
    2·
    26 days ago

    I am the IT support for my SO’s therapy business and we’ve already reviewed and rejected these tools, and I’m expanding out to start to advise other therapists as well. So, it’s not happening everywhere nor is it unnoticed.