Per NPR, the hotline is hugely active. NEDA is the largest eating disorder-focused nonprofit in the US, and its helpline fielded nearly 70,000 calls last year alone. But for all of that volume ...

An AI-powered chatbot that replaced employees at an eating disorder hotline has been shut down after it provided harmful advice to people seeking help. The saga began earlier this year when the ...

Instead, the non-profit will use a chatbot called Tessa that was designed by eating disorder experts, with funding from NEDA. Paid staffers and volunteers for the NEDA hotline expressed shock and ...

After a Google search, Brown found the National Eating Disorders Association hotline. The service offered ... resources to help address their eating disorder can also head off future mental ...

Early this spring, dozens of volunteers fielding requests from people struggling with eating disorders — many of whom call amid mental health crises — received surprising and abrupt news ...

The eating-disorder nonprofit said it is investigating ... Thompson said the chatbot was not intended as a replacement for its advice hotline. NEDA said in March that it would be shutting down ...

And sometimes, individuals are more willing to discuss their eating disorder than their mental ... months after Brown had first contacted the hotline. Soon, she was driving Matthew to Concord ...

Fears are growing around AI’s threats to the workforce. Starting tomorrow, June 1, hotline operators at the National Eating Disorders Association are scheduled to be replaced by a “wellness ...

The impression communicated by many of these posts, which typically include stylized photography of extremely skinny people, is that an eating disorder is an enviable lifestyle rather than a ...

The most recent numbers suggest 9% of Americans, or about 30 million people, will struggle with an eating disorder during their life, according to the National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and ...