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Public Responses to the First Randomized Controlled Trial of a Generative Artificial Intelligence Mental Health Chatbot

2025-06-27

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<p>We conducted a qualitative analysis of comments posted on news articles and blogs covering the first randomized controlled trial of a generative AI therapy chatbot. Four publications included comments (New York Times [n=258]; Yahoo News [n=36]; Medscape [n=6]; Philly Voice [n=3], total N=300). Negative reactions to AI-provided chatbots (n=213) were more common than positive ones (n=142). Negative comments inclu...

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Literature Corpus work: e7400d64-e8a5-52dd-8023-1a7b85f68a62
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/2xrp6_v1

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