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‘At 2am, it feels like someone’s there’: why Nigerians are choosing chatbots to give them advice and therapy

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With many unable to access or afford qualified therapists, AI is filling the mental healthcare vacuum, amid calls for tighter regulationOn a quiet evening in her Abuja hotel, Joy Adeboye, 23, sits on her bed clutching her phone, her mind racing and chest tightening. On her screen is yet another abusive message from her stalker […]

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He called himself an ‘untouchable hacker god’. But who was behind the biggest crime Finland has ever known?

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How would you feel if your therapist’s notes – your darkest thoughts and deepest feelings – were exposed to the world? For 33,000 Finnish people, that became a terrifying reality, with deadly consequencesTiina Parikka was half-naked when she read the email. It was a Saturday in late October 2020, and Parikka had spent the morning

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