Personifying LLMs also makes it easy to erroneously assign blame to them.

· Bits and Bobs 3/9/26
  • Personifying LLMs also makes it easy to erroneously assign blame to them.
    • When a serious mistake is made, whose fault is it?
    • It should be the human who pushes the button.
    • "A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision."
      • Important in the 70's, and even more important now.
    • Anthropomorphizing LLMs just obfuscates what's going on and gets us confused.