Woman Alarmed When Her Trusted Therapist Starts Recording Her With AI — Where Is Her Voice Going?

Don’t get me wrong, I think AI has very many useful things it can be used for. It can also be cloud based or self-hosted. But medical records, personal discussions, and most especially therapy sessions, really do require proper consent and understanding for recordings. The reason being, anything that goes into the cloud, especially if it goes to an AI service, is just not going to stop there and stay dead private. That’s a fact! We’ve already heard of secret keys getting recycled and bits of code that get re-used for other outputs. A person’s voice can be matched and profiled, and personal sessions like a therapy session need explicit permission for recordings. Most therapists are not very technically clued-up, and I doubt they have much idea about where the data is actually stored, what all the T&Cs are, and what the data could be used for. It is perfectly true that if just session notes are needed, a self-hosted OpenWhispr service will that for free, and completely in private and…