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Anthropomorphism in Children's Interactions with LLM Chatbots

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Re: Anthropomorphism in Children's Interactions with LLM Chatbots

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Why allow anthropomorphism in LLM or any computer output, for any age group?

A simple regulation would be that all LLM output must:

  * Explicitly identify itself as a computer

  * Identify the human or human org controlling it
    (e.g., 'This is Claude v8.90 software made by Anthropic.')

  * Not attempt to mimic humans except for entertainment
    purposes, and then clearly labeled (e.g., 'This is not
    a human. It is a computer pretending to be human for
    entertainment purposes.').
What violation of those regulations would be for other than defrauding and/or manipulationg people? They are easily complied with and I don't see those regulations impacting the economic productivity gains projected for LLM use.

Re: Anthropomorphism in Children's Interactions with LLM Chatbots

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Why allow anthropomorphism in LLM or any computer output, for any age group? A simple regulation would be that all LLM output must: * Explicitly identify itself as a computer * Identify the human or human org controlling it (e.g., 'This is Claude v8.90 software made by Anthropic.') * Not attempt to mimic humans except for entertainment purposes, and then clearly labeled (e.g., 'This is not a human. It is a computer p…

Preach! Mustafa Suleyman had a great post on some of this last year: https://mustafa-suleyman.ai/seemingly-conscious-ai-is-coming

Re: Anthropomorphism in Children's Interactions with LLM Chatbots

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Why allow anthropomorphism in LLM or any computer output, for any age group? A simple regulation would be that all LLM output must: * Explicitly identify itself as a computer * Identify the human or human org controlling it (e.g., 'This is Claude v8.90 software made by Anthropic.') * Not attempt to mimic humans except for entertainment purposes, and then clearly labeled (e.g., 'This is not a human. It is a computer p…

Because it makes the product mostly useless for all kinds of things?

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Why allow anthropomorphism in LLM or any computer output, for any age group? A simple regulation would be that all LLM output must: * Explicitly identify itself as a computer * Identify the human or human org controlling it (e.g., 'This is Claude v8.90 software made by Anthropic.') * Not attempt to mimic humans except for entertainment purposes, and then clearly labeled (e.g., 'This is not a human. It is a computer p…

Because it makes the product mostly useless for all kinds of things?

What things? Again, I don't see any but manipulation and fraud, but I certainly could be missing some.

Re: Anthropomorphism in Children's Interactions with LLM Chatbots

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Why allow anthropomorphism in LLM or any computer output, for any age group? A simple regulation would be that all LLM output must: * Explicitly identify itself as a computer * Identify the human or human org controlling it (e.g., 'This is Claude v8.90 software made by Anthropic.') * Not attempt to mimic humans except for entertainment purposes, and then clearly labeled (e.g., 'This is not a human. It is a computer p…

Because it makes the product mostly useless for all kinds of things?

Care to enlighten us? Because you seem to imply you want to have a conversation about your day every time you fire up a shell.

Re: Anthropomorphism in Children's Interactions with LLM Chatbots

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Why allow anthropomorphism in LLM or any computer output, for any age group? A simple regulation would be that all LLM output must: * Explicitly identify itself as a computer * Identify the human or human org controlling it (e.g., 'This is Claude v8.90 software made by Anthropic.') * Not attempt to mimic humans except for entertainment purposes, and then clearly labeled (e.g., 'This is not a human. It is a computer p…

Because it makes the product mostly useless for all kinds of things?

What world are you living in, I don't want to go there

Re: Anthropomorphism in Children's Interactions with LLM Chatbots

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Why allow anthropomorphism in LLM or any computer output, for any age group? A simple regulation would be that all LLM output must: * Explicitly identify itself as a computer * Identify the human or human org controlling it (e.g., 'This is Claude v8.90 software made by Anthropic.') * Not attempt to mimic humans except for entertainment purposes, and then clearly labeled (e.g., 'This is not a human. It is a computer p…

Seriously: for the sake of all future children, the elderly, and everyone in between

Re: Anthropomorphism in Children's Interactions with LLM Chatbots

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because it makes the product mostly useless for all kinds of things?

What things? Again, I don't see any but manipulation and fraud, but I certainly could be missing some.

Role play, which is a huge consumer of tokens. You can glance at openrouter's usage stats and see what apps tokens are going to and what the inference content was classified as. It's quite revealing.

Re: Anthropomorphism in Children's Interactions with LLM Chatbots

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Why allow anthropomorphism in LLM or any computer output, for any age group? A simple regulation would be that all LLM output must: * Explicitly identify itself as a computer * Identify the human or human org controlling it (e.g., 'This is Claude v8.90 software made by Anthropic.') * Not attempt to mimic humans except for entertainment purposes, and then clearly labeled (e.g., 'This is not a human. It is a computer p…

Because it makes the product mostly useless for all kinds of things?

I don't need a computer to mimic a human. AT ALL

As a matter of fact, for the line of work I do (programming, devops, the works) being conscious about the fact that I am just getting an algorithm outputting text that is probabilistically related to the input I gave it would actually be healthy for me and my mental state.

I HATE having to say "you" when working with an LLM.

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