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Also chatbots are explicitly designed to evoke anthropomorphizing them and to pull susceptible people into some kind of para-social relationship. Doesn't even have to be as obviously unhealthy as the "LLM psychosis" or "romantic roleplay" stuff.

I think the same thing is also relevant when people use chatbots to form opinions on unknown subjects, politics, or to seek personal life advice.



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