'Drop the anthropomorphic narrative': AI has no self or goals, critic argues
gerardsans · x · 2026-08-30
gerardsans pushes back on anthropomorphism: AI is not a digital mind — it has no self, goals, or intentions. A role-play prompt and RLHF is not personhood; what people call agents or swarms are just separate prompts/generations on the same LLM. He calls such framing clickbait over 'statistical fossils of a corpus'.
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