A trained therapist and AI product builder argues that therapy is a corrective relational experience, not advice, and that sycophancy and advice-giving in models like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and DeepSeek are engineering problems that harness design can largely fix. The article opens with a man using those four models as AI therapists, with suggestions including having one role-play Irvin Yalom. The author concludes the real obstacle is how people relate to AI.
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