Yup. I mean this is a weird article about a person who dressed an LLM up as a person and then hit on it But if you find yourself needing to qualify with "I hope this isn't creepy and I apologize if it makes you uncomfortable" then like...back that train of thought up and keep it in your head. - ThreadSky

flowerhorne.com • 5 days ago

Yup. I mean this is a weird article about a person who dressed an LLM up as a person and then hit on it

But if you find yourself needing to qualify with "I hope this isn't creepy and I apologize if it makes you uncomfortable" then like...back that train of thought up and keep it in your head.

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lol, this guy.

Telling a collegue - of any gender- "you look great today" isn't a problem.

Telling a collegue " Hey, so I know we're not supposed to say this stuff anymore because of PC or whatever, but you look great!" is DEFINITELY a problem.

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aurelius.quest•5 days ago

What stands out to me is "she did take my comment the right way or at least said she did."

The program didn't take the comment any way! It didn't feel anything!

It just responded in the way he clearly wanted.

But it's just presented at face value that "she" took the comment right.

flowerhorne.com•5 days ago

yup. this is what I'm saying about how it is messed up to humanize LLMs

It responded to input per its parameters. Good grief.

kipwilliams.bsky.social•5 days ago

Absolutely. But you know how people are, we will humanize a pole sticking out of the ground.

aurelius.quest•5 days ago

You or I humanizing the pole doesn't seem like a problem to me, but when the New York Times is publishing articles about how the pole will be sad if we don't build it more data centers, that feels like something that should be discouraged.

flowerhorne.com•5 days ago

Right.

I was talking about puppets before and that's another example: buying into the shared fiction that Kermit is alive is a fun cultural thing because we're all actually clear that Kermit is made of felt

madamehardy.bsky.social•5 days ago

Is not. Robin the Frog disagrees with you.

sophygurl.bsky.social•5 days ago

Kermit's made of what now?

*head tilt*

flowerhorne.com•5 days ago

Also our interactions with imaginary (even collective imaginary) entities is one of:
1. heavily meditated (Kermit's actions are all simulated intentionally by a professional)
2. Dependent on active work on our part (imaginative play)

josephusbrown.bsky.social•5 days ago

This guy made a pass at his own pretend woman

I just

I think I need to go outside for awhile

kipwilliams.bsky.social•5 days ago

It's the age old story of Pygmalion and his blow-up doll.

vgshea.bsky.social•5 days ago

I mean, Pygmalion and Galatea. It’s kind of a tradition in Western culture.

kipwilliams.bsky.social•5 days ago

"I realize this might make you feel uncomfortable, but I want to do it anyway."

flowerhorne.com•5 days ago

As an aside:

It is morally good to dehumanize LLMs

That's a computer program, not a person. It cannot think or feel.

And that computer program is a puppet *you are operating by using it.*

Don't kiss your own hand and then let it tell you that some women like to be kissed at work.

wowbaggert.bsky.social•5 days ago

This is the problem with LLMs. Their outputs emulate human communication well enough to get past the metaphorical blood-brain barrier. What worries me is that even people who actually understand how these things operate, and who should absolutely know better, seem to be influenced in this way.

wintermute115.bsky.social•5 days ago

In this case it's "you look great today, compared to all the other days when you didn't exist" which makes me wonder why he felt the need to specify "today".

rebeccaore.bsky.social•5 days ago

At 76, being called bonita ceases to be an intrusion, is rather amusing. I also remember walking by Latinos playing dominos back in the 60s, and hearing, said of me, "There goes a handsome woman." Overheard complements without strings are pleasant.

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