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Weizenbaum's nightmares: how the inventor of the first chatbot turned against AI

• Terr_ 2y ago
  > Weizenbaum had stumbled across the computerised version of transference, with people attributing understanding, empathy and other human characteristics to software. In many LLM contexts there is actually a second layer of transference too: We are being told about a fictional character in a growing collaborative story, and we transfer what we believe about that character onto the real-world story-extending program.