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If people think LLMs and humans are equal, people will treat humans the way they treat LLMs.




Looking over the comment chain as a whole, I still have some questions. Is it fair to say this is your main point?...

> Also, Claude doesn’t “think” anything, I wish they’d stop with the anthropomorphizations.

Parsing they above leads to some ambiguity: who do you wish would stop? Anthropic? People who write about LLMs?

If the first (meaning you wish Claude was trained/tuned to not speak anthropomorphically and not to refer to itself in human-like ways), can you give an example (some specific language hopefully) of what you think would be better? I suspect there isn't language that is both concise and clear that won't run afoul of your concerns. But I'd be interested to see if I'm missing something.

If the second, can you point to some examples of where researchers or writers do it more to your taste? I'd like to see what that looks like.




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