#voda

[respectissexy]

Tumblr is currently serving me an ad for "Voda, the LGBTQ mental health app" offering "daily meditations, self-care and AI advice" and as a therapist I am begging you not to download an app where an AI tries to help you with your mental health. Please do not. They tried to have an AI chatbot counsel eating disorder patients and it told them to diet. That shit is not safe. Do not talk to an AI about your mental health please. You don't need to talk to a professional but talk to a PERSON. Edited to add: OK, it's been a long day and I wrote this when I only had the information that was in the ad. It looks like they may not actually have a chatbot, but something that just... churns out pre-programmed advice? That's genuinely a lot safer! But calling it "AI advice" feels a little misleading. This app may be perfectly fine and safe to use, but should probably stick to the fundamentals that people want from a mental health app and not try to use AI hype to market, since the intersection of AI and mental health support is VERY DICEY and bad shit has happened there before. And you should probably do further research on how they are using your data, since that is also an area where mental health support apps have gone bad before.

#Voda #lgbtq #mental health #therapist rants

[walks-the-ages]

Tumblr, what the fuck is this?

Yet another predatory AI "therapy" app to scam vulnerable people with and use them to farm data? Really?

#no id #voda #fuck ai

[weed-cat]

PLEASE BE CAREFUL ABOUT THIS APP IF YOU ARE TRANS AND US-BASED. your ~trans inclusion statement~ means nothing if you're ready and willing to collaborate with pigs and feed them our personal information when you know full well that existing as a trans person is rapidly becoming illegalized in the United States.

#THIS IS SEPERATE IN THEIR DISCLOSURE FROM SUBPOENA. #THIS IS NOT EVEN TALKING ABOUT PROVIDING INFORMATION IF LEGALLY COMPELLED TO #THIS IS TALKING ABOUT GOING TO LAW ENFORCEMENT ON THEIR OWN TO PROVIDE INFORMATION ABOUT USERS #voda #voda app

[delgado-master]

Yeah, after kokobot (which put pedophiles in contact with someone claiming to be a high school student to test it out, and that also used mentally ill teens as test subjects) I’m not trusting an app with “AI advice” not to tell a bunch of queer people to kill themselves

Update: when you look up Voda, you get, in order

Notice that none of these options are about this mental health service.

So, yeah, this is very sketchy. I may end up downloading it myself so you don’t have to, but I will end this post by looking at the Google play store

First off, it’s rated everyone on Google play but 17+ on Apple Store (or 12+ in certain countries). I think this warrants future investigation on queerphobic App Store policies. I’ll look at why it’s rated 17+ later.

Additional features it advertises: Cognitive Journaling Exercises, so Journal Prompts? And “Support for Trans and LGBTQ+ Individuals” which is really weird to put at the end of the features for a queer mental health app

Also “Developed by Leading LGBTQIA+ Psychotherapists” is listed as “something you have access to?

Also enjoy this:

WHAT CAN I LEARN?

Unlock the power of self-guided therapy with evidence-backed therapy approaches, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), and mindfulness.

If you really had lgbtq+ people working on the app you think one of them would know of the other meaning of “CBT”.

At least they supposedly don’t collect data, and the permissions look normal.

it does disclose it collects more data on iPhone, but the data is entirely related to the app’s functions, and I think it’s 17+ I think because it’s a medical app.

#voda #voda mental health

[my-t4t-romance]

oh huh what's this at the top of my dash

sounded interesting until it got to the "ai therapist" part

#mossy’s musings #image description in alt text #voda

[lifeinbooks]

ne mogu da objasnim more kad ti vidiš samo vodu

#lifeinbooks #mladen milasinovic #moj oziljak je poslije kise ljubičast #poezija #poetry #voda #more #citati #knjiga #citati iz knjige #books #booklover #book qoute #balkan

[xythlia]

Really smart pitching this to the I hope AI fucking dies crowd

I do not trust any mental health app advertised on here after Kokobot AI used this userbase as guinea pigs (without anyone's knowledge) and was telling people with eating disorders to starve themselves. An AI cannot provide legitimate or non harmful mental health services

not to mention when you look at what makes therapy effective part of it is the relief of talking to someone in general but largely it's the relationship between therapist and patient. if you have a therapist you enjoy talking to, you feel like talking to them really helps, that is one of the biggest parts of effective therapy and an AI cannot provide that because you know you're not speaking to anyone you're speaking to a large language model. That's it. It's a program using you for development data. Any therapist involved in this things development is a fucking hack.

that's also not mentioning the environmental impact of AI. It takes hundreds of thousands of gallons of water to keep an AI sever going. A human therapist doesn't include catastrophic impacts on the environment.

#an AI cannot do cognitive behavioral therapy holy fucking shit #voda

[shrike-dyke]

tbh i am infinitely less likely to use a Mental Health App if it's advertising on a platform that experiments on mentally ill teenagers

#voda #voda mental health #also lol @ 'daily a.i. advice'

[peccaberry]

i saw your tags on the post about the v*da app and i cant believe they dm'd you over a neg review! i already didn't trust them since they are a mental health app that uses AI (I've seen how other b*tterhelp did ppl) but the fact they went out of their way to dm you seals it even more! did they want you to delete what you said or what? it's so sketch that tumblr is promoting an app like this

To be fair they were very polite (mostly just trying to convince me no they were a very good app actually and I wasn't giving it a fair shot. )

They did not ask me to remove the message but it was implied they were upset about it. I think they tried to offer me assistance if I wasn't able to pay for it (that really was not the problem I had) but I did not invite them to DM me and it pissed me off.

I told them respectfully to stop dming and they did. Why a **company** is trying to argue against tag criticism by dming people is beyond me but it was unprofessional regardless of how polite they were.

Unfortunately I deleted the conversation from my inbox because being DMED by a freaking company (derogatory) creeped me out and I didn't want to keep seeing it in my dms so I can't tell you exactly what they said but I'm sure some of my followers remember me reblogging a post they blazed and tagging it saying it seemed scammy.

I actually looked back and I think they somehow managed to get my tag taken off that blazed post because I couldn't see it anymore. I feel like they are super sensitive to criticism and I'll be interested to see how this all turns out. I'm not convinced they intend on being scammy but from what I saw on the app when I downloaded it to check it out and their behavior I don't trust them.

Anyway don't pay a mental health app that uses AI for advice and uses a subscription model to "help" LGBT people. They are claiming to be LGBT themselves but I don't think that changes much about the nature of these kind of "self help" apps being a bit predatory. They give off this really weird new-agey vibe too (idk if that makes sense but it's the way they talk that seems off.)

Also save your money for actual professional help if you need it and not an AI app. Especially not one being promoted by Tumblr who loves shoving scams in our faces. (Tumblr live shout out)

You can find much better LGBT support and understanding within your own community without it being sold to you. Lots of love to everyone struggling and real help is out there even if it's probably not this app that's gonna do it.

#peccaspeaks #lgbtaq #lgbt #mental health #asks #voda #voda app

[voda-zukfiu]

Neu Neu, my display font is available for download.

Link

#free #typeface #type #typography #typedesign #neu neu #voda #zukfiu #download

[joinvoda]

Free mental health support available for our trans and non-binary community on the app. x

Try it on the Voda app 🏳️‍⚧️❤️ 

About the programmes:

Our “Coping with Gender Dysphoria” programmes have been designed by a panel of queer, trans and non-binary psychotherapists who identify across the spectrum of gender, sexuality and ethnicity, bringing together an intersectional lens. 

The programmes are led by our Lead Psychotherapist, Chris Sheridan (they/them), a renowned trans non-binary psychotherapy who specialise in Gender, Sexuality and Relationship Diversity.

We know that our offering will not solve the trans mental health crisis, but hope to offer a small element of support to all trans and non-binary people who are struggling with gender dysphoria in the current system.

#queertiktok #nonbinary #transrightsarehumanrights #trans #transmentalhealth #lgbwiththet

#queertiktok #tiktok #nonbinary #transrights #trans rights are human rights #trans mental health #lgb with the t #gender dysphoria #lgbt mental health #voda

[sunshinecox]

Que difícil es cuando no tienes a nadie a quién acudir cuando tu mundo se está viniendo abajo.

#dolor #citas #frases #escritos #desahogo #fragmentos #tristeza #ansiedad #miedo #desilusión #Voda #Life #Vida #notas de tumblr #citas de tumblr #no tengo ganas #temor #Text #textos de tumblr #Soledad #Alone

[evangellinne]

#voda

[abeinkstudios]

I bet your hunting and fishing boyfriend/hubby will think these are awesome!!!! #abeink1030 #abeink #ALB #photo #foto #water #leau #laqua #ūdens #voda https://www.redbubble.com/i/leggings/Water-Lines-by-Abeink1030/120735117.7DWO7?utm_source=rb-native-app&utm_campaign=share-product&utm_medium=android #redbubble #redbubbleartist #artista #artiest #lartiste #umjetnik #mākslinieks (at Ontario, Canada) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp5urpppfdX/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#abeink1030 #abeink #alb #photo #foto #water #leau #laqua #ūdens #voda #redbubble #redbubbleartist #artista #artiest #lartiste #umjetnik #mākslinieks

[shreksnuts]

když má ta voda míň jak 30 stupňů

#voda #h2o #víteco #čumblr #č

[lale-i-knjige]

Važno je da život teče, on ne smije stati, gdje se krv zaustavila javlja se gnoj, a gdje stoji voda nastaje mulj.

Dževad Karahasan, Što pepeo priča