Why People Confide Their Secrets to AI
Wired AI · rss · 2026-07-14
This Wired article looks back at ELIZA, the chatbot created by MIT professor Joseph Weizenbaum in the 1960s, noting that how people interacted with it set a precedent for the modern chatbot era.
The piece explores why people confide in chatbots and project emotions onto them, tracing this phenomenon all the way to today's ChatGPT.
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