Comment by brookst
6 months ago
Nobody cares about what’s perceived as good marketing. People care about what resonates with the target market.
But yes, anthropomorphising LLMs is inevitable because they feel like an entity. People treat stuffed animals like creatures with feelings and personality; LLMs are far closer than that.
Alright, let’s agree that good marketing resonates with the target market. ;-)
I 1000% agree. It’s a vicious, evolutionary, and self-selecting process.
It takes great marketing to actually have any character and intent at all.
the chat interface was a choice, though a natural one. before they'd RLHFed it into chatting and it was just GPT 3 offering completions 1) not very many people used it and 2) it was harder to anthropomorphize
> People treat stuffed animals like creatures with feelings and personality; LLMs are far closer than that.
Children do, some times, but it's a huge sign of immaturity when adults, let alone tech workers, do it.
I had a professor at University that would yell at us if/when we personified/anthropomorphized the tech, and I have that same urge when people ask me "What does <insert LLM name here> think?".