Comment by andai

>while ELIZA has a comforting effect that many crave, PARRY often actively makes users uncomfortable and afraid

PARRY is my spirit animal.

> In empirical evaluations conducted during the 1970s, experienced psychiatrists proved unable to reliably distinguish PARRY's responses from those of actual patients diagnosed with paranoid disorders, achieving only 48 percent accuracy, a figure statistically indistinguishable from random guessing.

https://ai.miraheze.org/wiki/PARRY