Re: Chatter Bots

Interesting ideas, Lena! A bot certainly can become a target for displacement and acting out. After all, it's safe. It doesn't have feelings! The ambiguity of the bot (especially when people don't know it's a bot) also draws all sorts of projections from people. You might be interested in an article I wrote about computerized psychotherapy:

http://www.rider.edu/users/suler/eliza.html

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