RicósI had to get a new phone. I made the old one last as long as I could. Now, two days after getting the new one, this happens.
Good night, sweet prince.
bicipoiesis"In order to make more informed decisions about so-called #AI, it helps to be able to recognize the different ways in which the language used to describe it is #anthropomorphizing and thus misleading."
"... we share a responsibility to create and use empowering metaphors rather than misleading language that embeds the tech companies’ marketing pitches."
**We Need to Talk About How We Talk About 'AI'** by @emilymbender and Nanna Ini >> https://www.techpolicy.press/we-need-to-talk-about-how-we-talk-about-ai/?ref=sentiers.media
Petra van Cronenburg@emilymbender Excellent article.
At the moment, I am wondering why this #anthropomorphizing #AI is going viral at a time when many people are #alienated from #nature, attribute little or no #intelligence to animals, or ridicule the environmental personhood of nature.
We are quicker to attribute personality to an LLM than to a wild boar; we attribute non-existent intelligence to machines, but not to a bee (who undoubtedly demonstrates a kind of intelligence).
What does that say about us humans?
At the moment, I am wondering why this #anthropomorphizing #AI is going viral at a time when many people are #alienated from #nature, attribute little or no #intelligence to animals, or ridicule the environmental personhood of nature.
We are quicker to attribute personality to an LLM than to a wild boar; we attribute non-existent intelligence to machines, but not to a bee (who undoubtedly demonstrates a kind of intelligence).
What does that say about us humans?
Jose Murilo“#AI is not your friend. Nor is it an intelligent tutor, or an empathetic ear. It can not “make up” facts and it does not make “mistakes”. It does not actually answer your questions. Such #anthropomorphizing language permeates the public discussion of so-called AI technologies. The problem with #anthropomorphic descriptions is the risk of masking important limitations of probabilistic automation systems, which make it fundamentally different from human cognition."
https://techpolicy.press/we-need-to-talk-about-how-we-talk-about-ai
Ecologia Digital"The actual story—that X users are using a recent #Grok update to create nonconsensual intimate imagery, often of very young girls—is serious. But the media turned it into a clown show by #anthropomorphizing a #chatbot.
Though, for all my criticisms of how the media has handled this so far, you have to doff your cap to the FT, who has put out the best headline I’ve seen to date regarding all this: “Who’s who at X, the #deepfake #pornsite formerly known as Twitter.”"
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/07/journalistic-malpractice-no-llm-ever-admits-to-anything-and-reporting-otherwise-is-a-lie/
Though, for all my criticisms of how the media has handled this so far, you have to doff your cap to the FT, who has put out the best headline I’ve seen to date regarding all this: “Who’s who at X, the #deepfake #pornsite formerly known as Twitter.”"
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/07/journalistic-malpractice-no-llm-ever-admits-to-anything-and-reporting-otherwise-is-a-lie/
WIST Quotations Has Moved!A quotation from Robert Ingersoll
Nothing can be plainer than that each nation gives to its god its peculiar characteristics, and that every individual gives to his god his personal peculiarities.Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, agnostic, orator
Lecture (1872-01-29), “The Gods,” Fairbury Hall, Fairbury, Illinois
More about this quote: wist.info/ingersoll-robert-gre…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertingersoll #robertgreeningersoll #anthropomorphizing #God #projection #reflection #religion #selfimage
Lecture (1872-01-29), "The Gods," Fairbury Hall, Fairbury, Illinois - Ingersoll, Robert Green | WIST Quotations
Nothing can be plainer than that each nation gives to its god its peculiar characteristics, and that every individual gives to his god his personal peculiarities. First given on the 135th birthday of Thomas Paine. Collected in The Gods and Other Lectures (1876). See Voltaire.
Marc AbrahamsTempting to think this is a precautionary move — distancing itself from the neighbors. #anthropomorphizing https://theconversation.com/the-moon-is-getting-slightly-farther-away-from-the-earth-each-year-a-physicist-explains-why-262106
Erik JonkerThis is a good article, being critical about the anthropomorphizing around GenAI / LLMs. But also not blind for their added value.
https://addxorrol.blogspot.com/2025/07/a-non-anthropomorphized-view-of-llms.html
#AI #anthropomorphizing
https://addxorrol.blogspot.com/2025/07/a-non-anthropomorphized-view-of-llms.html
#AI #anthropomorphizing
ResearchBuzz: FirehoseMashable: The latest ChatGPT trend? People are using it to turn their pets into humans. “Since ChatGPT’s AI image generator launched to free users a couple of weeks ago, people online have been toying around with its possibilities. The latest trend involves people anthropomorphizing their pets. Yes, really.”
65dBnoiseA rock's attempt to smile for the camera 🙃
#FreeAssociation #Anthropomorphizing
Processed, cropped MCZ_RIGHT, FL: 110mm
looking W (270°) from RMC 52.2750
Sol 1157, LMST: 11:49:37
Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01157/ids/edr/browse/zcam/ZR0_1157_0769650033_598EBY_N0522750ZCAM03906_1100LMJ01.png
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/65dBnoise
