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by ithkuil 895 days ago
Constructs are constructed, in one way or another way and each construct is different from another construct constructed using different ruleset.

It doesn't matter if you think that gender is innate, fixed, immutable, strictly binary, mandated by god, or socially acquired, fluid, in a spectrum: if you designed a machine to act as a representative of some definition of a gender it will act like that, unless you also teach it to be fluid and able to adapt to your wishes. What machines do or can do is independent from what humans do or can do because we are just been constructed differently

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> if you designed a machine to act as a representative of some definition of a gender it will act like that, unless you also teach it to be fluid and able to adapt to your wishes

This is incredibly far removed from how LLMs actually work. Part of me is tempted to accept the challenge you've laid down (intentionally or not), and attempt to convince "Annie" here that despite its creator's intent, it is actually a boy. Given my experience with prompt injection, this should be trivial. The other part of me doesn't care enough to follow through on installing telegram much less interact with a bot over it.

You may well be right about LLMs but if they can be adapted to match you're expectations about gender says something about how LLM works and not necessarily about how humans work

My point is that the two things and not strictly related and you cannot make conclusions about humans just because you know something about LLMs or the converse. Since concepts like gender are to be understood within a context of humans I find sentences like "since gender is a social construct in humans then it follows that it must be a social construct in LLMs and necessarily easily changeable" to be fallacious logic