I Built an AI Therapist That Only Gives Terrible Advice

🔴 Sign up to build with Deepgram 👉 Get $200 worth of free credit (this can fuel a voice agent for at least 50 hours) 🔗 https://dpgr.am/DevFilip 🔴 Test Aura-2 (40+ voices) with your toughest pronunciation challenges in Deepgram's API Playground 🔗 https://playground.deepgram.com/?endpoint=speak&model=aura-2 🔴 Speech-to-text docs 🔗 https://developers.deepgram.com/docs/live-streaming-audio 🔴 Text-to-speech docs 🔗 https://developers.deepgram.com/docs/tts-rest 🔴 Demo project GitHub 🔗 https://github.com/FilipGrebowski/deepgram-bad-therapist 🔴 Live Therapist Demo to play with 🔗 https://deepgram-therapist.netlify.app 🟢 Work with my creative marketing agency 👉 [email protected] I built an AI therapist that only gives terrible advice — and yes, it’s exactly as chaotic as it sounds. Using Deepgram’s Nova-3 (speech-to-text) and Aura-2 (text-to-speech) models, I gave life and a voice to an AI therapist trained to do one thing: offer the absolute worst advice imaginable. From awful dating tips to career-ruining suggestions, this bot is a masterclass in what not to say. With prompts powered by Claude, I designed a system that sounds smart... but is emotionally unhinged. 0:00 Introduction 1:07 What is Good Advice? 1:37 Is Good Advice really that good? 2:55 The Problem & the Prompt 4:06 Giving the Therapist Ears & the Ability to Listen 6:22 Testing the Listening 7:04 Giving the Therapist a Brain (integrating with AI) 8:42 Testing the Thinking & Replies (GONE wrong) 9:24 Giving the Therapist a Voice 11:23 THE THERAPY SESSION