Claims: The First Chatbot’s Multiple Personalities

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1. title: The First Chatbot’s Multiple Personalities (alleges; supported) Source
2. url: https://spectrum.ieee.org/eliza-chatbot-source-code (alleges; supported) Source
3. summary: ELIZA is remembered as the world’s first AI star, a kindly therapist in chatbot form that gently probed users’ worries. Even its creator, Joseph Weizenbaum, was surprised by the warm reception given to his experiment in human-machine interaction. For some, it heralded an age of automated psychotherapy, while others believed the program demonstrated sentience, a fallacy soon known as the “ ELIZA effect .” Based on published descriptions, ELIZA has been implemented on many different computers, but… (alleges; supported) Source
4. published: Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:35:53 +0000 (alleges; supported) Source