If you have access to the Boston Globe, this piece from Evan Selinger on chatbots and dishonest anthropomorphism is a very good read.

bostonglobe.com/2023/05/08/opi

If you don't, there's an academic paper as well: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf

The basic premise is that we don't want chatbots designed to make people attribute more humanity to them than they possess.

The examples Evan provides from Google's Bard are remarkable, not to mention creepy.

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