alt Hacker NewsThe marketing and ecosystem surrounding these tools feeds into the anthropomorphization to a huge extent, though. You’re doing the opposite - throwing up your hands and going “it’s our evolutionary instinct, what can you do” while willfully ignoring how manipulated this space is. OpenAI alone has a higher advertising budget than Coca-Cola.
> The marketing and ecosystem surrounding these tools feeds into the anthropomorphization to a huge extent
And especially their design. The con artist politeness and confidence is not an accident of output, but a design choice by the developers.
I tell non-technical people: It's a software program; there is always a person behind it, and they have consciously chosen this output, to serve their own interests.