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malte<p>This was a new thought: That LLM bots come across as convincing in a similar way that horoscopes do. In social psychology, it's called the Barnum effect. Using vague enough language while giving a highly particular description (of someone's personality), gives people the experience that it is highly accurate. LLM bots have found a way to generalize something like a Barnum effect to the field of everything we prompt it for. </p><p><a href="https://radikal.social/tags/BarnumEffect" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BarnumEffect</span></a> <a href="https://radikal.social/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a></p>
Jack Deth<p>I do this thing every once in a while where I choose a random horoscope (that isn't mine) to see if it applies to me and today I chose Scorpio. ♏</p><p>"Your excellent communicative ability will be even stronger today. Whether your problems have to do with a colleague, boss, spouse, friend, or relative, you will find the words..."</p><p>okay, I'm gonna stop you right there. This one is so vague it perfectly demonstrates 'The Barnum Effect' (see below).</p><p><a href="https://social.horrorhub.club/tags/Astrology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Astrology</span></a> <a href="https://social.horrorhub.club/tags/Atheism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Atheism</span></a> <a href="https://social.horrorhub.club/tags/BarnumEffect" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BarnumEffect</span></a></p>
Jim Donegan 🎵 ✅<p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/STARTREK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>STARTREK</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/LogicalThinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LogicalThinking</span></a> #67 - The <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ForerEffect" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ForerEffect</span></a> <br> (<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/BarnumEffect" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BarnumEffect</span></a>) - <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/CognitiveBias" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CognitiveBias</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcgIisxahuM" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=DcgIisxahu</span><span class="invisible">M</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Trek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trek</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/LogicalThinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LogicalThinking</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Philosophy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Spock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Spock</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Enterprise" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Enterprise</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/TAS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TAS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/StarTrekTAS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StarTrekTAS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/TheAnimatedSeries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheAnimatedSeries</span></a></p>
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