Apophenia (media.piefed.social)
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[–] 50 points 9 months ago*

Technical term is the ELIZA effect.

In 1966, Professor Weizenbaum made a chatbot called ELIZA that essentially repeats what you say back in different terms.

He then noticed by accident that people keep convincing themselves it's fucking concious.

"I had not realized ... that extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people."

- Prof. Weizenbaum on ELIZA.

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