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"[T]est subjects who knew they were conversing with a machine thought it displayed emotions and empathy ...

What I had not realized,” Weizenbaum wrote in 1976, “is that extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people.”

>"[T]est subjects who knew they were conversing with a machine thought it displayed emotions and empathy ... >What I had not realized,” Weizenbaum wrote in 1976, “is that extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people.”

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The dot com boom was a money grab. AI is a money grab, but it's also viewed as a war for social control. It finally gives them a way to curate information without having to game search indexes and censor, because they can control how the model responds.