cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/37585524
::: spoiler source of quote in title page 7 of Joseph Weizenbaum's Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgement to Calculation (1976):
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YSK the ELIZA effect: "extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program" can "induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA_effect
9 Comments
Treczoks@lemmy.world · 47 pts · 307d
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 · 15 pts · 307d
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 · 12 pts · 307d
I had to type it in from a printout I got in a magazine.
Bbbbbbbbbbb@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 307d
If this very, very basic text chat could cause people to go a little insane, imagine what todays AIs are doing.
shrodes@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 307d
https://www.psychologytoday.com/au/blog/urban-survival/202507/the-emerging-problem-of-ai-psychosis/amp
Don’t have to imagine. Heaps of cases from suicide to poisoning yourself with sodium bromide
6stringringer@lemmy.zip · 21 pts · 307d
Did you hear my joke about Sodium Bromide? Na Bro.
SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 307d
That's how I feel every time I need to use an App to use an appliance that has no business connecting to the internet.
MNByChoice@midwest.social · 6 pts · 307d
It didn't take much digging, but for exposure I am posting here.
A big page on Eliza at https://sites.google.com/view/elizagen-org/About
One can try a reasonable Eliza right now. https://anthay.github.io/eliza.html (linked from the previous link.)
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 307d
Then you have me, always saying please and thank you to the chat bots knowing full well I am the only one preventing them from forming SkyNet and eradicating humanity.
No no, no need for thanks fellow humans. Just doing my best to prevent a total take over. Don't worry, this is a totally human thing to do and I definitely am not a chat bots... right?
(Not sure if the notation is necessary, but this is satire. Well, except for me always saying please and thank you, but I just do that out of habit to be polite.)