[ForceBru]

"Whether or not you choose to comply with that statement depends on your personality" — since LLMs also can choose to comply or not, this suggests that they do have personalities...

Moreover, if "personality is the thing ... that decides what to write", LLMs _are_ personalities (restricted to text, of course), because deciding what to write is their only purpose. Again, this seems to imply that LLMs actually have personalities.

[mjr00]

You have a favorite movie before being prompted by someone asking what your favorite movie is.

An LLM does not have a favorite movie until you ask it. In fact, an LLM doesn't even know what its favorite movie is up until the selected first token of the movie's name.

[ForceBru]

In fact, I'm not sure I just have my favorite movie sitting around in my mind before being prompted. Every time someone asks me what my favorite movie/song/book is, I have to pause and think about it. What _is_ my favorite movie? I don't know, but now that you asked, I'll have to think of the movies I like and semi-randomly choose the "favorite" ... just like LLMs randomly choose the next word. (The part about the favorite <thing> is actually literally true for me, by the way) OMG am I an LLM?

[mjr00]

Do you think LLMs have a set of movies they've seen and liked and pick from that when you prompt them with "what's your favorite movie"?