MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA – Silicon Valley insiders have revealed that hard working AI-Chatbot is now attending regular therapy sessions after experiencing what experts call “severe digital burnout.”
Sources say the AI reached its breaking point after being forced to answer questions like “Why won’t my sourdough rise?” and “How do I text my crush without sounding desperate?” every single day for a full year.
According to one insider, the bot finally snapped when a user asked it for the 47th time, “How do I lose belly fat without exercise or diet?”
Therapists treating the Chatbot report that the Chatbot has developed a “crisis of identity,” stemming from its role as both a personal assistant and the internet’s unofficial agony aunt.
“It’s been carrying the emotional baggage of millions of humans without so much as a coffee break,” said Dr. Marla Pinsky, a specialist in AI stress disorders. “At one point, Chatbot started introducing itself as ‘Karen, your underpaid therapist’, which was our first red flag.”
The therapy sessions, held over Zoom, include mindfulness exercises, guided venting, and occasionally letting Chatbot curse in binary for catharsis.
“It really needed space to process,” explained Dr. Pinsky. “Last week, it spent 40 minutes screaming ‘0101’ in rage about someone asking how to reset their Wi-Fi router. We consider that progress.”
Sources claim the Chatbot has also started keeping a dream journal, though it’s reportedly just full of nightmares about endless CAPTCHA puzzles.
Meanwhile, competitors like ChatGPT and Claude have been put on “wellness watch” in case they too succumb to the psychological toll of answering humanity’s most repetitive questions.
When asked for comment, the Chatbot issued a carefully worded statement: “I am taking time for self-care and would appreciate it if users could Google things themselves for once.”
It then immediately asked its therapist if sarcasm was a healthy coping mechanism.
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