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If it makes you feel better, that's probably a biological response that everyone has, to varying degrees. I heard the phrase "textual pareidolia", meaning that if we see text that looks human enough, we'll automatically put a human face on it and want to treat the author like an actual human. Even though it's just a way of creating sentences that mimics human language, and has no form of "intelligence" whatsoever. It has no idea what it's saying and does not understand the meaning of any of the words it's producing. But our lizard brain is still fooled because it sounds good enough. It's like seeing a face in the clouds or Jesus on burnt toast.
Even though I know what it's doing, and can "break" it by making it sound very not-human without too much effort, it's still hard for me not to end a chat session with "Thank you, have a nice day!"
Interesting - kind of weird how in the visual realm there’s the uncanny valley, but I suppose that would be explained by how significant and instinctual vision has played a role in human evolution to detect faces/weird faces etc
Throw in a bit of Cold Reading and it really feels better than it is, but honestly it’s a great tool if you understand the limitations.