I played with ELIZA back the 70s as a student. I wasn't fooled, and nobody I knew was fooled. I wasn't a CS student, either.
One rapidly realizes how its answers are formed from the questions, and for questions not in a handful of forms, you get one of a very small number of generic responses.
One rapidly realizes how its answers are formed from the questions, and for questions not in a handful of forms, you get one of a very small number of generic responses.