PARASOCIALIZE

A mechanism or tactic · 1966 · Contemporary

The dialogue programs

ELIZA, PARRY and Colby - three programs that convinced people they were listening.

ApplicationConsiderationai
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The dialogue programs in its neighbourhood HERE ELIZA - A mechanism or tactic966ELIZA
points at this this points at colour is what kind of thing it is

All three were written to be good enough to be believed, and the belief was studied as a phenomenon rather than treated as a bug.

Application. One-sided attachment put to work on purpose. Creator economies, community, fandom as infrastructure, and the things that genuinely help people. Not automatically good - a tool with an obvious use is a tool that will also get a bad one.

Consideration. The part where somebody stops and thinks. The research, the diagnosis, the ethics, the lawsuits, the regulators. Roughly fifty years of arguing with itself about whether this is a relationship.

Where it sits

1950 1950-1999 · 1966 1999

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