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points by pizza234 2 days ago | 0 comments
Assuming that "tools" are the result of imperative programming, LLMs are not "tools" because they have a fundamentally different design.

And anthropomorphism is actually a precise way to describe the behavior (mind, not the structure) of LLMs.

As a matter of fact, LLMs are not configured, they're "trained".

"Moralization" is quit vague in this context, but if one treats it as a form of alignment, then LLMs certainly do have something resembling a moral(-like) framework, which is actually an important topic in modern AI research.

Antropomorphism also applies here: morals not in the human structural sense, but, as a set of norms etc., then behaviorally similar.

[–] root_axis 2 days ago
> Assuming that "tools" are the result of imperative programming, LLMs are not "tools"

I don't see any reason to assume that.

> if one treats it as a form of alignment, then LLMs certainly do have something resembling a moral(-like) framework

This is just stretching metaphor to fulfill a pedantic definition. LLMs are tools, they're no more moral a csam classifier.

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