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"As a Language Model": Chat Template Switches LLM Self-Referential Voice

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  1. ForHackernews · · focus · HN ↗
    In my view, these models should never be set up to output first-person "experiential" (from the abstract) language. It's too easy to humans to anthropomorphize software that presents itself as having an identity.

    The AI companies have chosen to package LLMs as friendly chatbots because they know that will be engaging for humans, but it's manipulative dark pattern. An honest LLM interface would sound like the computer off Star Trek.

    1. actionfromafar · · focus · HN ↗
      Agreed, completely. I would pay for that Star Trek computer interface.
      1. urikaduri · · focus · HN ↗

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