While not something we therapists advertise, ruptures in the therapeutic alliance are not only common, they are inevitable. This trend is expected to persist as more chatbots, designed to resemble human therapists and trained in multiple modalities, become available. Participants interacted frequently with the chatbot and evaluated the therapeutic alliance as comparable to that achieved with human therapists. Such studies are distressing to therapists like myself, who, while mindful of the risks and ethical concerns surrounding AI in mental health care, generally support clients using platforms like ChatGPT between sessions as long as these silicon facsimiles remain tools that complement rather than replace human therapists. In one experimental study, participants were given an identical apology statement generated by AI following a simulated data breach but were told it was either written by a human, assisted by AI, or generated by AI alone.