Karpathy: Think of LLMs as simulators, not entities with their own views
ZeroStateReflex · x · 2026-10-11
Andrej Karpathy argues LLMs shouldn't be treated as entities with opinions but as simulators: don't ask "What do you think about xyz?" because there is no "you" inside. Force the "you" framing and the model simply adopts a personality embedding vector to produce an answer.
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