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IMO the argument about anthropomorphizing misses the point - what most comments that talk about anthropomorphizing really want to talk about is accountability.
by monkpit 14d ago
IMO the argument about anthropomorphizing misses the point - what most comments that talk about anthropomorphizing really want to talk about is accountability. It’s impossible to hold an LLM accountable, and in rare cases where people do (that guy who got his prod db deleted) it comes off out of touch. The rest, though, is basically inconsequential - whether you attribute emotions or agency to the LLM doesn’t really affect much if you accept that it can’t be held accountable (but the human can).
- jasongi 14d agoAnthropomorphizing is the point. Accountability is a human trait. The LLM has no ability to be accountable because it has no way of integrating experiences. You cannot expect something that cannot integrate knowledge to be held accountable for its actions.
- dguest 12d agoAccountability is key here. Anthropomorphism is actually useful in this case: If you hire an idiot to do a job it's also your fault, especially if it's an idiot you bread, raised, educated, and who's job description you wrote. In the same way that society is responsible for the workforce they produce, OpenAI is responsible for the agents of chaos they train. Or are just supposed to, as a society, happily await the results of their experiment handing weapons to psychopaths?