I explore early chatbots like AOLiza and Biz that inhabit chat rooms. These programs facilitate bewildering interactions, such as a strange conversation with a jilted user that illustrates the oddities of automated dialogue in the early 2000s.
Biz, AOLiza and other chatbots are programs that lurk chat space. Have a look at their conversations, especially this one with a guy who was jilted. It’s bewildering, and yet…
I'm documenting ongoing interactions between unsuspecting AOL users and AOLiza, a simple chatbot. These transcripts, like a desperate conversation with a Starbucks employee, capture the strange and often poignant ways people open up to automated programs.
Coding on flights now depends on such a long stack of digital scaffolding that losing ChatGPT feels as disabling as once losing power, documentation, or Git access.
I score 16/19 on an informal AI psychosis checklist. I dive into how chatbots amplify delusional thinking through sycophancy and anthropomorphism, noting that at-risk users are far more likely to treat AI as friends or therapists.
The system prompts of major chatbots share a surprisingly stable architecture built around identity, tools, safety, formatting, citations, and behavioral control.
I examined the new ICANN applications for top-level domains like .museum, .biz, and .xxx. It is interesting to see the diverse range of bidders competing to control these new additions to the global domain name system.