To go deeper: some animals act curiously, others with fear, but only a few of them understand what the mirror does and use it to inspect themselves.
To go deeper: some animals act curiously, others with fear, but only a few of them understand what the mirror does and use it to inspect themselves.
the “mirror stage” by lacan is worth looking into here but no, I don’t think humans automatically think the llm has a sort of reified other, but as we get past an uncanny valley and into generations growing up with entire personal histories in an llm - I can absolutely see that happening.
I think most people using them know that there’s not something there, and yet when using it they’ll still act as there is. Even giving it that benefit of doubt in what it outputs as valid, as if it’s from another person, maybe even one who knows more than they do. So it’s a gray area of “not believing”.