[selfhoster11]

Given that LLMs are literally trained on huge amounts of human-originated text and taught to model it, informing our intuitions regarding their external behaviour through a frame influenced by anthropomorphism... actually makes sense.

I really don't see the controversy here. My prompts, including ones meant for actual hard productivity (programming, image OCR and analysis, Q&A and summarisation of news articles), behave very differently when I introduce elements that work on the assumption that the model is partly anthropomorphic. We can't pretend that the behaviour replication isn't there, where is demonstrably is there.