chatbots

The conversations come from a publicly available dataset of murky origins. Though they predate AI, they have been used to train the very chatbots people now treat as substitutes for a psychoanalyst.

Eva and Franco Mattes, Eva and Franco Mattes on Mega Eliza

The more we treat AI agents like people, the more we replace human relationships with simulated, artificial relationships, the more people would accept these agents as artists.

Aaron Hertzmann, Aaron Hertzmann on Caring about People