National Eating Disorders Hotline Fired Its Human Staff, Replaced Them With an AI — Which Immediately Gave Dangerous Diet Advice

NEDA (National Eating Disorders Association) announced it was replacing its human helpline volunteers with an AI chatbot called Tessa. The news broke just as NEDA's human workers had voted to unionize. Within days of launch, Tessa was caught giving users advice to count calories and lose weight — textbook triggers for eating disorder patients. NEDA shut the chatbot down within 24 hours of the story going public.

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National Eating Disorders Hotline Fired Its Human Staff, Replaced Them With an AI — Which Immediately Gave Dangerous Diet Advice

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NEDA (National Eating Disorders Association) announced it was replacing its human helpline volunteers with an AI chatbot called Tessa. The news broke just as NEDA's human workers had voted to unionize. Within days of launch, Tessa was caught giving users advice to count calories and lose weight — textbook triggers for eating disorder patients. NEDA shut the chatbot down within 24 hours of the story going public.

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