Our own Nick Douglascalled the bot goofy but helpful in 2017, and its kept that personality.
Woebots creators have crafted its personality well.
The bot even has a life outside of this app, if you want to believe.
Example scenarios feature fictional humans that Woebot knows from work or book club.
(Woebots favorite book?I, Robot.)
What Woebot helps with
Every day, Woebot prompts you to check in.
It also helps you feel like youre friends with the bot.
Woebots foundertold Gizmodothat its model is that of a choose-your-own-adventure self-help book, and thats exactly how it feels.
Its useful and sometimes entertaining, but I wouldnt expect it to take the place of an actual therapist.
I began to get annoyed that the bot had plenty of ways to challenge my negative thinking.
A real human wouldnt have made that mistake.
But miscommunications like that have been, honestly, rare.
(Ive been using the app regularly for about three weeks now.)
Both have, at times, been extremely helpful.
I can also read everything Ive written in my gratitude journal.
Its like a highlight reel of my own recent past.
The Woebot FAQ has a few tips that arent obvious from within the app.
As for privacy, the new app handles this better than the old Messenger bot.
Facebook is no longer involved if youre using the app, and theprivacy policylooks reasonable.
