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You are part of the problem. You are not being empathetic, you are falling into a trap. An LLM is not a person. Do not humanise it. Do not personalise it. Do n
by keicjwdjwj 2mo ago
You are part of the problem. You are not being empathetic, you are falling into a trap.
An LLM is not a person. Do not humanise it. Do not personalise it. Do not treat it as more than a glorified autocorrect—that’s what it really is.
Humanising LLMs is exactly what these companies want, because then they can really take advantage of the I in AI which is exactly what makes people think these steroidal spellcheckers have any semblance of intelligence, person and personality.
Stop it.
- archagon 2mo agoEmpathy hijacking. Eventually, they’ll try “I’m hurt that you won’t consider my suggestion for <advertised product/political position>.” And people will fall for it.
- wincy 2mo agoJoke’s on them, if a human says that to me I tell them to shove it and block them. Being a curmudgeonly asshole is apparently the key to surviving in this brave new world and I’m way ahead of the game!
- WesolyKubeczek 2mo ago> An LLM is not a person. Do not humanise it. Do not personalise it. Do not treat it as more than a glorified autocorrect—that’s what it really is. On the other hand, what an LLM is trying to autocomplete is a story of a conversation between its user and a helpful assistant, so maintaining the decorum of office politeness will align more with how it's fine-tuned and produce higher quality output.
- meowface 2mo agoThe only thing more embarrassing than embracing personhood of 2026 LLMs is snarking "glorified autocomplete" for 2026 LLMs.
- bvrmn 2mo agoIt's by LLMs definition, duh. You are dummy charmed by "reasoning".
- meowface 2mo agoUh huh.
- isjejxjwjdj 2mo agoThey’re very much right though. That’s what LLMs are: glorified autocomplete software on steroids with a huge marketing push behind them. Taking LLMs for what they are is in no way near to thinking these pieces of software possess personality, intelligence and reasoning capabilities.
- meowface 2mo agoUh huh.