Post #3092738

2026-05-19 11:34 UTC

It's not semantic – it's completely different things happening if there's real consciousness and compassion present based on lifeforms on one hand or a mere simulation of that in form of a text output on the other hand that only superficially looks like there's something intelligent. People regularly fall for the illusion and project their own feelings into the machine while reading the text output of an LLM. Many are not capable of differentiating and the chatbots are designed in a way to make it more and more difficult to recognize synthetic output. Humans are good in projecting their own feelings into things they see, just look at all the cat or dog owners who believe they can read the thoughts of their "babies" from their facial expressions.

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@communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 2026-05-19 13:47

It's semantic because it's really about language. Who cares that it's not doing that like a human would, everyone who knows anything knows that and they were clearly using language in a less cumbersome way. yes, everyone already knows what you're saying, but it doesn't matter and serves no purpose other than making it difficult to talk about their behaviours. The only workaround for this would be inventing new terms for when an ai does a behavior that resembles a human one. It'd be very cumbersome and add no value to any conversation. to those not capable of understanding this or who disagree with you, what you're saying wouldn't convince them anyway, you're just adding noise to these conversations.

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