Troy on Nostr: The creator of ELIZA was disturbed by what is known as "The ELIZA Effect". I'm sure ...
The creator of ELIZA was disturbed by what is known as "The ELIZA Effect". I'm sure he's rolling in his grave right now.
“What I had not realized is that extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people,” Weizenbaum recalled in his 1976 book, Computer Power and Human Reason.
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