Brutkey

Glen Malley
@glen_malley@mstdn.ca

My knee-jerk reaction is to "wtf?" at people getting emotionally attached to chatgpt, but then I remember we also talk to our cars and miss appliances that die and need replacing, and attach deep personal meaning to "our" staplers, etc.
It's just what people do, and the thing talking back just makes it more likely.

Glen Malley
@glen_malley@mstdn.ca

I anthropomorphize lots of things in my life despite "knowing better", so I shouldn't really slag on people who do it with LLMs.

Glen Malley
@glen_malley@mstdn.ca

On a lark, I made a Claude account and have spent much of the morning discussing this phenomenon and the issues from the article with "him".

Glen Malley
@glen_malley@mstdn.ca

Verdict: Claude is way more conversational than Chatgpt or Gemini, and way less over the top with praise and effusive excitement over everything you type.