> writer anthropomorphizing the fictional ‘ai’ to tell it it’s nature - it relies on the LLM’s world model to then also anthropomorphize a fictional ai assistan

> writer anthropomorphizing the fictional ‘ai’ to tell it it’s nature - it relies on the LLM’s world model to then also anthropomorphize a fictional ai assistant I think it’s a little game or reward for the writers at some level. As in, “I am teaching this artificial entity by talking to it as if is it a human” vs “I am writing general rules in some markup dialect for a computer program”. Anthropomorphizing leads to emotional involvement, attachment, heightened attention and effort put into the interaction from both the writers and users.