Companion
tibbi does not have a built-in AI chat. This page helps you talk to an outside AI tool on your own terms, and is clear about what AI can and cannot do.
Free · confidential · 24/7. You do not have to wait until you have lost a lot to call.
What AI can help with
- Somewhere to put things into words at two in the morning, when you are not ready to ring a person.
- Helping you sort out your thinking: what happened, and how you feel about it.
- Reminding you what you learned about probability when your head is telling you this time is different.
What AI is not
- It is not a therapist, and it does not replace a qualified person.
- It cannot handle a crisis. If you are having thoughts of harming yourself, call Lifeline on 13 11 14 or 000, right now.
- It does not know your actual situation, and it can be confidently wrong.
- Do not ask it for betting strategy. No strategy beats the house edge.
Ways to start
Copy any of these and paste it into whichever AI tool you use.
"I lost a fair bit tonight and I want to bet again to win it back. Talk me through why that is a bad idea."
"I have just realised I bet more this month than I thought. I do not know who to start this conversation with."
"Explain to me again why the two sides of a market add up to more than 100%, as if I had never heard it."
A built-in chat is planned for a later release. It will not ship until its wording has been reviewed and approved by our clinical adviser, Dr Alice Brennan. That sign-off is a release requirement, not a checkbox.
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. The whole point of the layer is to get out of the way.
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. Shipping a chat that answers a message like the one above would be the single most dangerous thing this product could do.