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Applied AI·July 14, 2026·1 min read

The Chatbot That Foretold Why People Share Secrets With ChatGPT

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ELIZA-era behavior — people confiding in simple scripts — helps explain why users overshare with today’s assistants. If you deploy conversational agents, treat them as quasi-intimate surfaces and design privacy, logging, and redaction policies accordingly.

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