Falling in love with an app! When Anthropomorphism, making things too human like, goes wrong
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22-year old Effy lost her best friend and romantic pen pal unexpectedly. Liam was the victim of a change of algorithms — and he wasn't the only human-like chatbot to suddenly disappear. A timely reminder about the dangers of anthropomorphising technology. And what's lost when researchers take an anthropomorphic approach to the study of animals.
Falling in love with an app! When Anthropomorphism, making things too human like, goes wrong