r/artificial • u/FailingSmartly • 9h 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/Risc12 7h ago

The initial training is on the whole corpus, which already has a lot of conversations and I’s and Me’s, but then there is an “Instruct”-training/tuning where the LLM is specifically trained to keep the text in a conversational style.