SirBoostALotThis is a very thought-provoking article for anyone that has any interest in, or experience with an #AI #chatbot OR a #psychic (or for that matter, a traveling #evangelist that goes from #church to church, especially those in the #pentecostal / #charismatic / #evangelical camp, since they often use the same techniques. If you are an #exvangelical or have suffered #ReligiousTrauma you may have encountered these types - they may actually believe they are doing God's work, but whether they know it or not they are using many of the same tricks that most psychics and stage magicians use. Even some #preachers , #pastors and #CultLeaders use these techniques on their congregations, especially in the #Christian #megachurches).
The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic's con
https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llmentalist/
