- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
Fry concluded: "Cass didn’t make us any money at all. And, in a lot of ways, she was a disaster. She spent hundreds of dollars on paper clips and leaked our passwords to a total stranger.
They refer to it as her because it chose to be referred to as her and as “Cassandra”. They asked it to name itself and this is what it chose.
I get what you’re saying about anthropomorphizing the LLM (which I agree we shouldn’t do), but the purpose of this was to put the scope of what it can and can’t do and some of the pitfalls it has in a video that is accessible by the general masses.
Does this make the whole problems with anthropomorphizing LLMs more prevalent? Yeah, probably. Is it intended as a grift? Not that I can tell from watching the video.
I don’t think anthromorphizing the AI has really been the issue when you look into the negative effects of AI
It usually boils down to codependence type behaviors. It’s people who let the Internet genie make their decisions for them that really get into trouble