Humans can be committed to their utterances, but LLMs can't be.
- Humans can be committed to their utterances, but LLMs can't be.
- LLMs are fundamentally incapable of commitment.
- After the conversation, they're gone![d]
- Commitment requires you to be in the world.
- To be able to be jailed if you do something bad.
- To have to compete on your time with limited resources.
- If you have infinite ability, if you don't have to choose or commit, then it's hard to pin you down.
- Accountability is linked to identity.
- That the one who made the commitment is the same one who will deal with the consequences of that commitment.
- Corporations are ships of Theseus.
- The employees can come or go and it's the same entity.
- Legally , the same tax ID number.
- An ID gives you a granulation point other things can attach to.
- LLMs want the upside of identity but not the downside of responsibility.