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.

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