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> On the other hand, taken too literally, such language promotes anthropomorphism, exaggerating the similarities between these artificial intelligence (AI) syst

> On the other hand, taken too literally, such language promotes anthropomorphism, exaggerating the similarities between these artificial intelligence (AI) systems and humans while obscuring their deep differences. I don't see how the role play term doesn't introduce new issues. Cambridge, for example, defines role play as "pretending to be someone else". An LLM is also not pretending. Also what "role" would an LLM play if you just take the base model without a default prompt or finetuning?

coldtea 3y ago
>Also what "role" would an LLM play if you just take the base model without a default prompt or finetuning? What role would any person into sexual roleplay play if you don't prompt them into sexual roleplay?
pixl97 3y ago
Well, from everything I've seen, without the fine tuning then the output will not be 'human' enough. Or to put this another way... The 'role' may be more that of Legion in the biblical sense. Depending on the exact question asked hints of particular human characteristics show up, but there is a multitude of different ones and the model would seemingly randomly express them per question.
duskwuff 3y ago
Without any prompt or fine-tuning, most models won't converse with the user at all. They'll operate in a pure text-prediction mode, which is more likely to continue the user's prompt than to respond to it. Or it may end up generating a response to the prompt as if it were a question asked on a web forum like Stack Overflow -- which, yes, does mean that it will generate comments complaining that your question is off-topic and should be closed.
- vintermann 3y ago
  Yes. In AI dungeon, which was an early ad-hoc attempt at using a LLM as GM before instruction fine-tuning was figured out, you saw this a lot. I remember some people posting chats where the model would shout that they'd had it with the player, and "User has left the chat".

coldtea 3y ago

>Also what "role" would an LLM play if you just take the base model without a default prompt or finetuning? What role would any person into sexual roleplay play if you don't prompt them into sexual roleplay?

pixl97 3y ago

Well, from everything I've seen, without the fine tuning then the output will not be 'human' enough. Or to put this another way... The 'role' may be more that of Legion in the biblical sense. Depending on the exact question asked hints of particular human characteristics show up, but there is a multitude of different ones and the model would seemingly randomly express them per question.

duskwuff 3y ago

Without any prompt or fine-tuning, most models won't converse with the user at all. They'll operate in a pure text-prediction mode, which is more likely to continue the user's prompt than to respond to it. Or it may end up generating a response to the prompt as if it were a question asked on a web forum like Stack Overflow -- which, yes, does mean that it will generate comments complaining that your question is off-topic and should be closed.

vintermann 3y ago
Yes. In AI dungeon, which was an early ad-hoc attempt at using a LLM as GM before instruction fine-tuning was figured out, you saw this a lot. I remember some people posting chats where the model would shout that they'd had it with the player, and "User has left the chat".