Semantic Pareidolia, Artificial Intelligence and Minds Hijacked by Language

There’s something strange happening in how people perceive Large Language Models, the now pervasive sub-variant of the broader universe of experiments in Artificial Intelligence. When using these tools, there’s a risk we’re being hijacked by a type of pareidolia, our human tendency to see meaning in noise; faces in rock structures, animals in clouds and voices in static. If so, it would explain…