Not aliens but human-shaped: the LLM anthropomorphization debate flips
ctjlewis · x · 2026-09-26
Developer ctjlewis pushes back on the claim that people over-anthropomorphize LLMs: models aren't human, but they are explicitly human-shaped, trained on human information and conversations.
- He argues there's no need to worry about anthropomorphizing something inherently anthropomorphic
- The "aliens" framing is fine for stressing non-human qualities, but stressing their human-shaped qualities is equally valid
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