iquilezles pushes back on AI anthropomorphizing: 'they won't one day wake up'
iquilezles · x · 2026-10-19
Graphics legend Inigo Quilez critiques an X user's analogy that AI is 'native' to the internet the way humans are native to society, calling the argument incoherent and accusing him of anthropomorphizing models 'as if they will one day wake up.' A representative AI-circle debate over anthropomorphism and model consciousness.
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