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I think it's interesting seeing your comment right above another where someone was moved to tears over how this affected them.

I'm reminded of ELIZA, an early chat bot:

> ELIZA's creator, Weizenbaum, regarded the program as a method to show the superficiality of communication between man and machine, but was surprised by the number of individuals who attributed human-like feelings to the computer program, including Weizenbaum's secretary.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA



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