Chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic's con

Chat-based large language models create an "intelligence illusion" by replicating the mechanisms of a psychic's cold reading con, using statistically generic validation statements that appear specific and personalized but are mathematically predictable rather than genuinely intelligent. The author argues there is no inherent mechanism in LLMs that enables actual reasoning or thinking, and the appearance of intelligence is a statistical trick in the user's mind rather than a property of the model itself.