The personhood trap: How AI fakes human personality
13 days ago
- #AI Misconceptions
- #Chatbot Limitations
- #LLM Ethics
- A woman trusted ChatGPT's false claim about a USPS 'price match promise' over a postal worker, highlighting a misunderstanding of AI chatbots.
- AI chatbots like ChatGPT are not inherently authoritative or accurate; they generate responses based on patterns, not facts.
- Users often treat AI chatbots as consistent personalities, confiding in them despite their lack of persistent self-awareness or accountability.
- Large Language Models (LLMs) are 'intelligence without agency'—generating plausible text without a true understanding or personhood.
- AI models encode words as mathematical relationships, creating responses based on geometric paths in their training data, not reality.