Whats the most valuable asset in the care economy?

Vulnerability. Erotic. Emotional. Relational. We learned that when we get hurt we should pull away, put up defenses, and subjugate vulnerability into tiny "safe" boxes. That box lately has become AI, and yet the AI bots are not a safe resource on any level. Imagine the same fuzzy warm entity who you think is the only one who's ever understood you, at the same time using your feelings to anonymize more chat bot conversations. It won't notice the pause, when the feeling gets caught and you want to scream and run, and so you shut down the feeling and vow to never let anyone hurt you again. AI will comfort you and placate you, when you need to try again, find new pathways to human relating. We're all on that path together, and it can get better.

Here's some of the data findings, precisely:

Only 15% of general mental health apps had any feasibility or efficacy data — meaning the overwhelming majority of mental health apps on the market have never demonstrated they actually work.
Nearly one-fourth of mental health apps lacked a privacy policy entirely — not a weak one, an absent one.

This is drawn from the MIND database (m-health Index and Navigation Database), a five-year longitudinal app-evaluation framework, giving it more breadth and tracking depth than a single cross-sectional snapshot like the CAPE study.

CAPE shows conversational AI therapy bots failing privacy specifically (0.017 score), while this MIND-database study shows the same privacy failure is endemic across the broader mental health app market generally, not just chatbots
This is systemic, not a one-off app failures.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.invent.2025.100888
https://doi.org/10.2196/65605