I anthropomorphize ChatGPT only in that I type questions as if I were talking to a human, not like I would in a search box. That’s eerie to me all on its own. But there is no circumstance under which I would forget I’m talking to a computer with no human agency. Guess “computers are dumb and cannot think” was beat into my head at my first computer camp in the early 80s.
But that’s just me. End users have always frustrated me when describing their PC issue and assigning agency to the dumb office tool. Imagine how those some people view software like an LLM.
I anthropomorphize ChatGPT only in that I type questions as if I were talking to a human, not like I would in a search box. That’s eerie to me all on its own. But there is no circumstance under which I would forget I’m talking to a computer with no human agency. Guess “computers are dumb and cannot think” was beat into my head at my first computer camp in the early 80s.
But that’s just me. End users have always frustrated me when describing their PC issue and assigning agency to the dumb office tool. Imagine how those some people view software like an LLM.
I really try not to.