YSK the ELIZA effect: "extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program" can "induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people"

Arthur Besse@lemmy.ml · edit-2 2 days ago

YSK the ELIZA effect: "extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program" can "induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people"

Treczoks@lemmy.world · 2 days ago

I’ve used the actual ELIZA program about 40 years ago, and while it was funny, it was nowhere close to the delusion-o-matics of today. If this toy software could already draw gullible people in…

awesomesauce309@midwest.social · 2 days ago

I remember pulling her up in middle school. Terminal on osx had emacs and emacs had Eliza and a couple text adventures.

Treczoks@lemmy.world · 2 days ago

I had to type it in from a printout I got in a magazine.

YSK the ELIZA effect: "extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program" can "induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people"

YSK the ELIZA effect: "extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program" can "induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people"

ELIZA effect - Wikipedia