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Here’s Why Your Brain Thinks the Chatbot is Real
The use of AI chatbots can be dangerous for people vulnerable to magical thinking — especially when they don’t understand what their own brains are doing.
Pareidolia — the brain’s tendency to find patterns, faces, and meaning in noise — is a feature, not a bug. It helped our ancestors survive. The rustle in the grass might be a predator, so the brain that assumes it is lives longer than the one that doesn’t. It reproduces more offspring with that instinct. We’re all running ancient threat-detection software that was never designed for the modern world — let alone for a chat window that types…
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