Post #2868906
2026-05-19 06:33 UTC
LLMs/Chatbots confabulate statistically probable texts, there’s no compassion possible.
Don’t fall into the AI-marketing trap of “we don’t know what’s happening in the black box, so we have to assume there’s consciousness in there”. The systems produce convincing deceptive language, but all signs of intelligence or compassion anyone sees in them is just an anthropomorphic projection.
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@communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 2026-05-19 06:38
This is a semantic argument, they obviously means it emulates compassion better than a real human, and given its issue with sycophancy this is undoubtedly true, even to a fault. There’s no need to do this every time someone says an ai thinks or does some humany thing, everyone gets it, the language for saying these things is just clunky.
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@phutatorius@lemmy.zip 2026-05-20 09:20
Anthropic have actually looked at how their LLMs reason. Don't use them for anything important.