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should large language models refer to themselves using first person pronouns? i just came across a tweet by uncle bob from 2 days ago arguing that this shouldn’t be allowed. while i agree in principle, i believe we are way past the rubicon now.
very quickly, amidst the ai hype of 2023 and especially 2024, it was inevitable that we will end up here - where chatbots routinely refer to themselves in first person as though they exist in the sense of the word. this is something that would have been brushed off as a gimmick by most a few years ago, but today, a lot of people have moved past (or outright skipped) the “prompting a statistical model” phase and have collectively deluded themselves into the “chatting with a friend”, or even worse the “opening up to my therapist” phase.
whether this is a good or bad thing remains to be seen. after all, at the core of it all, we are all matching...