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Nobody cares about what’s perceived as good marketing. People care about what resonates with the target market. But yes, anthropomorphising LLMs is inevitable
by brookst 1y ago
Nobody cares about what’s perceived as good marketing. People care about what resonates with the target market.
But yes, anthropomorphising LLMs is inevitable because they feel like an entity. People treat stuffed animals like creatures with feelings and personality; LLMs are far closer than that.
- cmiles74 1y agoAlright, let’s agree that good marketing resonates with the target market. ;-)
- brookst 1y agoI 1000% agree. It’s a vicious, evolutionary, and self-selecting process. It takes great marketing to actually have any character and intent at all.
- DrillShopper 1y ago> People treat stuffed animals like creatures with feelings and personality; LLMs are far closer than that. Children do, some times, but it's a huge sign of immaturity when adults, let alone tech workers, do it. I had a professor at University that would yell at us if/when we personified/anthropomorphized the tech, and I have that same urge when people ask me "What does <insert LLM name here> think?".
- roywiggins 1y agothe chat interface was a choice, though a natural one. before they'd RLHFed it into chatting and it was just GPT 3 offering completions 1) not very many people used it and 2) it was harder to anthropomorphize