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Awareness and understanding are not concepts exclusive to anthropomorphization. chatGPT understands you and is aware of things but it is obviously far away from the human experience.

You're the one turning humans into walking cliches thinking that anyone who considers chatGPT to be more than a simple program MUST be anthropomorphizing it and falling for the cliche biases that are completely obvious. Stop projecting, someone with a different opinion than you isn't some simpleton without the sophistication to helplessly anthropomorphize random text.

What you're not understanding here is that you are also a thing that takes an input and produces output.

The other thing you have to realize are that many experts and intelligent people are convinced this thing understands you. Take Douglas Hofstadter, author of Godel, escher, bach. The guy is literally going through a crisis right now because that book completely missed the mark.