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by runjake 461 days ago
Yes, I am. While I am fully aware the current set of AIs don't have feelings or a consciousness as we know it, I can't help but anthropomorphize them, so I'm polite and even catch myself thanking them sometimes.
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They're trained on text that includes human interaction, and reactions to different tones of text. It makes sense to me that they'd react in a human-ish way as a consequence, whether or not the feelings are "real" as such.
The "personality" you're interacting with is not really the result of pre-training, but deliberate post-training (RLHF, and specific system prompts).