It's one thing to deliberately anthropomorphize in order to construct an analogy. It's another thing to anthropomorphize by accident or by illusion, as per par

It's one thing to deliberately anthropomorphize in order to construct an analogy. It's another thing to anthropomorphize by accident or by illusion, as per pareidolia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia . Just as in pareidolia, where the human brain is primed to "see" a human face in a certain pattern of light and shapes, it seems that human brains are primed to "see" a human intelligence in the output of an LLM, because our brains are pattern-matching on "things that look like human speech". But that's a reason to not anthropomorphize LLMs, precisely because people are inclined to do so without thinking.