while ELIZA has a comforting effect that many crave, PARRY often actively makes users uncomfortable and afraid
PARRY is my spirit animal.
In empirical evaluations conducted during the 1970s, experienced psychiatrists proved unable to reliably distinguish PARRY's responses from those of actual patients diagnosed with paranoid disorders, achieving only 48 percent accuracy, a figure statistically indistinguishable from random guessing.
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IIRC, PARRY https://simulation-and-society.org/parry/ got there in 1972 by pretending to be a paranoid schizophrenic person
PARRY is my spirit animal.
https://ai.miraheze.org/wiki/PARRY
Also I found the source code!
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/ai-repository/ai/areas...