Character.ai – a popular platform where anyone can create chatbots based on fictional or real people. It uses the same type of AI tech as the ChatGPT chatbot but, in terms of time spent, is more popular. Last year an AI service called Limbic Access became the first mental health chatbot to secure a UK medical device certification by the government. It is now used in many NHS trusts to classify and triage patients. elsewhere the medical world is starting to tentatively accept them as tools to be used to help cope with high demands on public services. A total of 78 million messages, including 18 million since November, have been shared with the bot since it was created by a user called Blazeman98 just over a year ago. The bot has been described as “someone who helps with life difficulties”. Can you go an AI therapy ?

