Chatbot for patients with eating disorders shut down after delivering harmful advice: US
A not-for-profit has pulled its AI assistant ‘Tessa’ after it provided advice that would make an eating disorder worse, not better.
A US charity for patients with eating disorders has been forced to shut down a chatbot called ‘Tessa’ after it told people to cut their daily calorie intake by 1000 and use calipers to measure fat.
Psychologist Dr Alexis Conason (PsyD) says advice from the AI-powered chatbot used by the National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) could have exacerbated patients’ symptoms.
