The National Eating Disorders Association took down a controversial chatbot, after users showed how the newest version could dispense potentially harmful advice about dieting and calorie counting.
Instead, the non-profit will use a chatbot called Tessa that was designed by eating disorder experts, with funding from NEDA. (When NPR first aired a radio story about this on May 24, Tessa was up and running online. But since then, both the chatbot's page and a ...
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The National Eating Disorders Association has indefinitely taken down a chatbot after the bot produced diet and weight loss advice. The nonprofit had already closed its human-staffed helpline.
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The National Eating Disorders Association disabled its chatbot, named Tessa, due to "harmful" responses it doled out to people grappling with the affliction.
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AI chatbots aren’t much good at offering emotional support being—you know—not a human, and—it can’t be stated enough—not actually intelligent. That didn’t stop The National Eating Disorder Association from trying to foist a chatbot onto folks requesting aid in times of crisis. Things went about as well as you can expect, as an activist claims that instead of helping through emotional distress, the chatbot instead tried to needle her to lose weight and measure herself constantly. ...
An eating disorder advocate blows the whistle on an AI-powered helpline that was giving out dangerous advice.