This was a new thought: That LLM bots come across as convincing in a similar way that horoscopes do. In social psychology, it's called the Barnum effect. Using vague enough language while giving a highly particular description (of someone's personality), gives people the experience that it is highly accurate. LLM bots have found a way to generalize something like a Barnum effect to the field of everything we prompt it for.

#BarnumEffect #LLM

I do this thing every once in a while where I choose a random horoscope (that isn't mine) to see if it applies to me and today I chose Scorpio. ♏

"Your excellent communicative ability will be even stronger today. Whether your problems have to do with a colleague, boss, spouse, friend, or relative, you will find the words..."

okay, I'm gonna stop you right there. This one is so vague it perfectly demonstrates 'The Barnum Effect' (see below).

#Astrology #Atheism #BarnumEffect

#STARTREK #LogicalThinking #67 - The #ForerEffect
(#BarnumEffect) - #CognitiveBias

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcgIisxahuM

#Trek #LogicalThinking #Philosophy #Spock #Enterprise #TAS #StarTrekTAS #TheAnimatedSeries

This bitch.

#astrology #horoscope #ForerEffect #BarnumEffect

Our co-founder @renatangens@twitter.com awards one of 2019's #BigBrotherAwards to #Precire, a German company that claims to compute psychological profiles by analyzing voice samples of job applicants.

https://bigbrotherawards.de/en/2019/communication-precire-technologies

#VoiceAnalysis #pseudoscience #BarnumEffect #BBA19