Anthropomorphism in Children's Interactions with LLM Chatbots

Anthropomorphism in Children's Interactions with LLM Chatbots(arxiv.org)

8 points by StatsAreFun 2 hours ago | 1 comment

mmooss 1 hour ago |

Why allow anthropomorphism in LLM or any computer output, for any age group?

A simple regulation would be that all LLM output must:

  * Explicitly identify itself as a computer

  * Identify the human or human org controlling it
    (e.g., 'This is Claude v8.90 software made by Anthropic.')

  * Not attempt to mimic humans except for entertainment
    purposes, and then clearly labeled (e.g., 'This is not
    a human. It is a computer pretending to be human for
    entertainment purposes.').

What violation of those regulations would be for other than defrauding and/or manipulationg people? They are easily complied with and I don't see those regulations impacting the economic productivity gains projected for LLM use.

4b11b4 15 minutes ago | |

Seriously: for the sake of all future children, the elderly, and everyone in between

ndnichols 40 minutes ago | |

Preach! Mustafa Suleyman had a great post on some of this last year: https://mustafa-suleyman.ai/seemingly-conscious-ai-is-coming

pixl97 38 minutes ago | |

Because it makes the product mostly useless for all kinds of things?

windexh8er 23 minutes ago | | |

Care to enlighten us? Because you seem to imply you want to have a conversation about your day every time you fire up a shell.

ericol 15 minutes ago | | |

I don't need a computer to mimic a human. AT ALL

As a matter of fact, for the line of work I do (programming, devops, the works) being conscious about the fact that I am just getting an algorithm outputting text that is probabilistically related to the input I gave it would actually be healthy for me and my mental state.

I HATE having to say "you" when working with an LLM.

4b11b4 15 minutes ago | | |

What world are you living in, I don't want to go there

mmooss 34 minutes ago | | |

What things? Again, I don't see any but manipulation and fraud, but I certainly could be missing some.

* Explicitly identify itself as a computer * Identify the human or human org controlling it (e.g., 'This is Claude v8.90 software made by Anthropic.') * Not attempt to mimic humans except for entertainment purposes, and then clearly labeled (e.g., 'This is not a human. It is a computer pretending to be human for entertainment purposes.').