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It's human to see patterns where they don't exist and assign agency.
Definitely. And the patterns are actively a feature for these chatbots. The entire idea is to generate patterns we recognize to make interfacing with their blobs of interconnected data more natural.
But we're also supposed to be intelligent. We can grasp the concept that a thing may look like a duck and sound like a duck while being.... well, an animatronic duck.
it's like seeing faces in wood knots or Jesus in toast