This deserves wider distribution. It needs saying constantly. Overattribution is joining my discourse on this. All the language chosen by ai proponents favours belief on a mind. Choice, says, infers, states, hallucinated, thinks.. these are crap words to use describing the systems behaviour of an llm or gpt.
It's such a relief to see someone putting this into print.<p>Now, if we can have the same conversation about pets, we can really make some headway in resolving a major component of first world mental illness.<p>Overattribution and projection...