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		usefulcat 11 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why do LLMs freak out over the seahorse emoji? > Using emotive, anthropomorphic language about software tool is unhelpful, in this case at least. Ok, I'm with you so far.. > Better to think of it as a mentally disturbed minor... Proceeds to use emotive, anthropomorphic language about a software tool.. Or perhaps that is point and I got whooshed. Either way I found it humorous!

8note 11 days ago [–]

the whoosh is that they are describing the human operator, a "mentally disturbed minor" and not the LLM. the human has the agency and specifically bypassed the guardrails

usefulcat 11 days ago | [–]

You're quite right, I totally misread that. Thank you for the clarification.

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