2023-07-04 · HN #49775104
The LLMentalist Effect: How Chatbots Mimic Psychic Cold Reading to Create an Illusion of Intelligence
A 2023 analysis argues that chat-based large language models produce an illusion of intelligence not through genuine reasoning but by employing the same psychological techniques used by psychics in cold reading, where generic validation statements are perceived as personally meaningful due to cognitive biases like subjective validation.
