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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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[–] MangoCats@feddit.it 0 points 1 day ago

People are also just big complex machines - chemical pathways responding to conditions, stimuli and "memories" encoded from past experience or in their DNA - plus a host of microbes tagging along influencing them rather dramatically.

LLMs are simpler, but they use the trick of imitating people - responding in writing like people respond in writing, so the anthropomorphizations are inevitable.

Any apparent motivation attributed to AI is actually the motivation of the people invoking it

Don't forget the influence of its training sets - that's actually the scariest part is not knowing how much of the answer is coming from the prompt vs what the company has fed the algorithm.

When individuals claim that AI is compelling them toward a certain action, they are, in reality

Delusional, or just making excuses.

AI is propaganda. It provides a convenient mask for human agendas

Only when used as such, and it's not much of a mask. What it does tend to do is develop and "pad out" writing covering all kinds of points that normal people wouldn't have the attention span to formulate into a written response.