Atwood has been writing about speculative futures for a long time, so it’s interesting to watch her react in real-time to one of them actually happening.
The post captures something real about LLMs: the interface makes the interaction feel like a social exchange even when you know perfectly well it isn’t. Despite knowing better we attribute intention/emotion/feeling to the LLM. I felt that the most in her (somewhat bleak) sign off at the end.
I'm surprised Margaret Atwood expects readers to slog through that large amount of Claude's blather. 5% of that and an astute summary would have been sufficient.
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[ 6.0 ms ] story [ 17.4 ms ] threadThe post captures something real about LLMs: the interface makes the interaction feel like a social exchange even when you know perfectly well it isn’t. Despite knowing better we attribute intention/emotion/feeling to the LLM. I felt that the most in her (somewhat bleak) sign off at the end.