Flutterby™! : LLMs as psychic cold reads

This is really good: The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic’s con

That’s when I remembered, triggered by a blog post by Terence Eden on the prevalence of Forer statements in chatbot replies. I have heard this before.

This specific blend of awe, disbelief, and dread all sound like the words of a victim of a mentalist scam artist—psychics.