Weizenbaum's nightmares: how the inventor of the first chatbot turned against AI

> Weizenbaum had stumbled across the computerised version of transference, with people attributing understanding, empathy and other human characteristics to software.

In many LLM contexts there is actually a second layer of transference too: We are being told about a fictional character in a growing collaborative story, and we transfer what we believe about that character onto the real-world story-extending program.