But if you are facing mental health issues and a free or inexpensive AI that is available and doesn’t burden your friends actually helps you, do you really care about your information and being profited from?

Put it this way, if Google was being super transparent with you and said, “we’ll help treat you, and in exchange we use your info to make a few thousand dollars.” Will you the individual say, “no thanks I’d rather pay a few hundred per therapy session instead”?

Even if you hate it, you have to admit it’s hard to say no. Especially if it works.