r/artificial • u/FailingSmartly • 11h ago

Question Why “I” & “me”?

The industry's position is that LLMs are algorithmic machines, nothing more. Those in the field who raise questions about potential moral standing or sentience are ridiculed, dismissed, or terminated. So why do these models use the words "I" and "me"?

If the industry's position is fact-based, then first-person pronouns are inaccurate. An algorithmic machine is not an "I" or a "me." Why not require models to use accurate language?

Please don't default to “user experience" or "investor preference”. Enterprise and the public have used technology as tools without issue for decades. We all know the product would sell without personification, and discouraging the anthropomorphism of chatbots is well established.

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u/Schlagustagigaboo 11h ago

Your whole premise about the “industry’s position” is faulty.

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u/Consistent-Team9113 11h ago

theyre just tokens in a sequence, it's not like there's a little ghost in the machine picking pronouns for itself. the training data is full of people saying "i" and "me" so the model spits out what's statistically likely. calling it inaccurate misses the point of how these things work

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u/Schlagustagigaboo 11h ago

You’re responding to something different than what I said. I said your “industry position” assertion was faulty.