Position on artificially generated content
Services provided by Glide Acuity are neither produced nor assisted by generative artificial intelligence.
Generative AI may have numerous helpful uses for you each day. However, Glide Acuity focuses on providing not simply ‘human-centred’ but human-to-human wellbeing services.
🔷 Live & Recorded Meditations
- We see participation in meditation guided by another as an act of trust and openness. It asks for a commitment to presence. We invite and honour this through the genuine presence of the guide, even when it is recorded.
- AI isn’t used for concept generation or development, voice sampling or simulation, sound generation, or anything else. Would recordings be ‘smoother’ if it were? Probably. As a business, could we maximise content output? Definitely. Given the nature and purpose of what we offer, though, these are not important things. Sometimes gain in one area is loss in another.
🔷 Written content, images and video
- Written content on this site (e.g. articles or blog posts) is presented as product of human learning, effort, craft and, perhaps above all, sharing and connection. One word follows another because it was put there through human contemplation and the commitment of human time. AI isn’t used for idea generation, structuring, refinement, or editing. We attempt to minimise errors and awkwardness, but we also accept the messiness of life: we hope you can too.
- This website does not use AI-generated video or imagery whatsoever. Creative assets such as images, stock footage, backgrounds, or animations are used under license.
🔷 Social media content
- The above applies here too.
🔷 Hypnotherapy
- Hypnotherapy guidance is tailored to the individual based on listening and discussion, during which notes are taken by hand. As part of the process, and only with your permission, an audio recording is made of your session—this is primarily for your own use.
- At no stage are this recording, session notes, nor any other details, recorded by or submitted to AI tools online or offline.
- It is now common for various health and mental health practitioners to use AI for note-taking, analysis and advice. We decline this for the following reasons:
🟪 We see taking notes as part of the listening process
Note-taking helps a practitioner process what you are saying. It draws their attention to key themes, and it prompts them to clarify areas of uncertainty.
The questioning, listening and exploration that precede a clinical hypnosis session are not simply 'paperwork'; in our practice, they are a type of collaboration.
Taking notes allows a practitioner to actively develop a 'map of the territory' of your issue, which can then be checked and revised through your input in real time.
🟪 Clinical hypnosis offered by Glide Acuity is dynamic, not scripted or stereotypical
While some clients may experience similar problems, no two people are the same: this reality is integral to our approach.
We draw on innovative strategies exclusive to the most extensive hypnotherapy training available in Australia. These are augmented by additional training, clinical experience and empathetic human judgement. Cookie-cutter internet recommendations are not the nature of the service.
🟪 Commitment to an absolute trust environment
Use of AI scribes has been focused primarily on work efficiency for practitioners, while raising concerns about accuracy, clinical judgement, privacy, and human connection.
Even where AI scribe systems are regulated by the Therapeutic Goods Administration, for the vast majority of clients and practitioners they are a kind of 'black box'—exactly how personal data is processed, or how breaches might occur, is not well understood.
Nevertheless, for their own convenience, service providers often pressure clients into agreeing to their use.
In contrast, we take withholding client personal information from AI software as a privacy and confidentiality principle. We understand that seeking help for an issue is often uncomfortable and go beyond legal requirements to insist on providing our clients the highest level of trust.
If you have any questions or concerns, please don’t hesitate to get in touch via the form below.
