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People anthropomorphize AI models, much as people anthropomorphized the ELIZA system in the past.
Tim Scarfe · Every Exponential Ends — Silicon Valley Forgot — Adam Becker · 20 Aug 2026
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“we anthropomorphize these models just like the Eliza system many,”
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