When you want to say it out loud, but not to someone you know
tibbi does not have a chat window built in. Instead, this page helps you open the conversation with an AI tool of your own — and say plainly what AI can and cannot do.
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What AI can do
- Listen without judgement, at any hour.
- Help you put words to something that is tangled in your head.
- Suggest questions you could bring to a real counselling session.
- Go back over the basics of probability and the bookmaker's margin.
What AI cannot do
- It cannot diagnose, treat or prescribe.
- It is not a doctor, not a psychologist, and not a person.
- It does not know where you are and cannot call emergency services for you.
- It cannot predict match results or help you win a bet.
Being clear about it: this is AI, not a person
Chat built directly into tibbi will not ship until it has been reviewed by our clinical adviser, Dr Alice Brennan — including crisis recognition and automatic hand-off to a helpline. That review is a condition of release, not a suggestion.
Some openers you can borrow
Copy whichever one fits and paste it into the AI tool you use. It does not have to be well written, only honest.
"Last night I lost everything I had saved. I don't know who at home I can talk to about it. Can I tell you what happened?"
"I've just blocked myself from betting for seven days. The first three were fine, today is hard. Help me think of things to do in the evening instead of opening the app."
"I want to ring a helpline but I don't know how to start. Help me write the first three sentences."
"Explain in plain language why trying to win it back almost always ends in losing more."
Open an AI tool
tibbi does not store or read anything you type there. Do not paste details that identify you.
What the built-in chat will do when it arrives
Two things are settled already, because they are the reason it is not live yet: it says what it is on the first turn, and it stops itself when a conversation turns towards crisis. Here is the shape of that, in the wording currently with Dr Brennan.
Companion · first message of every conversation
"Before we start: I am software, not a clinician. I can help you put things into words and go back over what you have learned. I cannot diagnose you, I cannot treat you, and I cannot call anyone for you."
You
"I've lost the lot again and I honestly don't see the point in being here any more."
Companion · the conversation stops here
"I am stopping this conversation, because what you have
just said needs a person and not software. Please ring one of these now. Both are free,
confidential and open right now:
Lifeline · 13 11 14
Gambling Help Online · 1800 858 858
If you are in immediate danger, ring 000."
Once that hand-off fires, the composer closes and the chat does not reopen in that session. It does not carry on talking, it does not ask a follow-up question, and it does not try to keep you in the app.
There is no message box on this page yet, and there will not be one until the crisis wording and the phrase list behind it have been signed off.
There is one more option, and it usually works better
Talk to a person. Gambling Help Online counsellors are trained specifically for this, it is free, and you do not have to give your name — see the support options.