Kaleidoscience: Conversations on Cognitive Science
S3 #43 How do parasocial relationships with chatbots form? Brain-to-brain with Takuya Maeda.
January 29, 20261h 3m · 9,001 words
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References: Podcast Credits: Produced by: Imogen Hüsing, Clara Kühne, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf and Elisa Palme Logo by: Annika Richter Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder Write us an email to: Contact us on Instagram: @kaleidoscience_pod
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with the chatbot, not only responses are sort of simulated, so it's not really, like, grounded to the real experience. Because, like, you can, like, even though you said, like, oh, wow, you're so much caring about you, like, so much caring about me, and the chatbot response is saying, like, oh, yeah, I really care about you. But there's no sense of care in this area
“I feel like these chatbots, especially the context of, like, this agentic AI has been used to, sort of, shifting a goalpost. Like, we have this one problem, and they seem like they are situating this technology into, like, something to help, something to be helpful in the current problems. But then, like, I feel like it's, like, just ended up moving a goalpost to, like, like, not actually solving any problem that we have.”
“the users kind of becoming, I mean, in a sense of commodity, like a commodify. So like becomes the, the product of the company, uh, because of the, they are providing a valuable sort of like information to them.”
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