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LLMs talk like people; there is nothing wrong with this. It's perfectly fine to be nice to something even if it isn't human. It's why we don't go around kicking
by beowulfey 8mo ago
LLMs talk like people; there is nothing wrong with this. It's perfectly fine to be nice to something even if it isn't human. It's why we don't go around kicking dogs for fun.
I understand why people don't act polite to LLMs, but honestly I think not thanking them will make people act more dickish to other humans.
- SoftTalker 8mo agoI like to think we can perceive a difference between a machine and a living being. I don't thank my bicycle for transporting me or thank my spell-checker for finding typos. I get that we are prone to anthropomorphize but was just something I found a bit surprising.
- coldtea 8mo ago>I don't thank my bicycle for transporting me or thank my spell-checker for finding typos. Neither your bicycle nor your spell-checker hold conversations and answer questions, neither of them is being used as therapist or virtual girl/boy friend, and neither's whole shtick is being trained on a ginormous human corpus to convincingly respond like a person. I like to think we can perceive a difference between a bicycle and an something specifically developed and trained to pass for intelligence...
- queenkjuul 8mo agoSee, i have absolutely thanked my car. When i was broke driving a beater and it was below zero outside, practically every time it chose to start lol I don't think it's that weird