The AI Empathy Crisis

Remember LaMDA and the Google engineer? That, but happening to millions of people

Pareidolia: the tendency … to impose a meaningful interpretation on a nebulous stimulus … so that one sees … meaning where there is none. Credit: Author via Midjourney

AI language models (LMs) have recently gotten so skilled as to be believable — even deceptive.

Not in the sense of intentionally fooling people, but in the sense of being capable of generating utterances that would make us imagine a mind behind the screen.