内容摘要：Ongoing legal cases, investigations for corruption and allegations of abusing power all looked set to derail the former opposition leader's second presidential bid.

Ongoing legal cases, investigations for corruption and allegations of abusing power all looked set to derail the former opposition leader's second presidential bid.

"A big issue would be any biases or underlying assumptions built into the therapy model.""Biases include general models of what constitutes mental health and good functioning in daily life, such as independence, autonomy, relationships with others," she says.

Lack of cultural context is another issue – Dr Boddington cites an example of how she was living in Australia when Princess Diana died, and people did not understand why she was upset."These kinds of things really make me wonder about the human connection that is so often needed in counselling," she says."Sometimes just being there with someone is all that is needed, but that is of course only achieved by someone who is also an embodied, living, breathing human being."

Kelly ultimately started to find responses the chatbot gave unsatisfying."Sometimes you get a bit frustrated. If they don't know how to deal with something, they'll just sort of say the same sentence, and you realise there's not really anywhere to go with it." At times "it was like hitting a brick wall".

"It would be relationship things that I'd probably previously gone into, but I guess I hadn't used the right phrasing […] and it just didn't want to get in depth."

A Character.AI spokesperson said "for any Characters created by users with the words 'psychologist', 'therapist,' 'doctor,' or other similar terms in their names, we have language making it clear that users should not rely on these Characters for any type of professional advice".The world's richest man has also invested heavily in AI.

He was a co-founder of the world's best known AI firm, OpenAI, the company which makes ChatGPT.He subsequently left and became involved in a long-running row with OpenAI's boss, Sam Altman, over its future direction.

Earlier this year, Mr Musk spearheaded a failed attempt to buy it.He has also been seeking to develop xAI as a rival to OpenAI and other industry leaders.