/6 To quote the inimitable Liz Losh from an essay forthcoming in #CriticalAI, bots generate "simplistic vagaries" that lack "strong ability to engage w/ the meaning-making activities of real-world audiences."/6 To quote the inimitable Liz Losh from an essay forthcoming in #CriticalAI, bots generate "simplistic vagaries" that lack "strong ability to engage w/ the meaning-making activities of real-world audiences."

/7 Their implementation as personified entities is deliberately manipulation as the FTC makes in a recent blog. This anthropomorphizing legerdemain (a/k/a the ELIZA effect) was first noted in the 1960s! There's nothing "Promethean" about it, except the marketing rhetoric./7 Their implementation as personified entities is deliberately manipulation as the FTC makes in a recent blog. This anthropomorphizing legerdemain (a/k/a the ELIZA effect) was first noted in the 1960s! There's nothing "Promethean" about it, except the marketing rhetoric.