alt Hacker NewsI think the argument against anthropomorphizing is not really about how you interact (chat) with an llm but rather how you treat it in the context of its status in work/society. There are still important differences between humans and llm's. They don't have rights, they can't be sued, they don't have "memory", they have no capacity to learn outside of the training stage etc...
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scoot • today at 9:40 AM
> they don't have "memory", they have no capacity to learn outside of the training stage
The underlying LLMs don't, but the agent frameworks around them do.
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Your response seems to skip over exactly the distinction that the parent comment was making. The LLM itself may not have memory or capacity to learn, but the fictional character created by the LLM does. (See also: in-context learning.)