Empathy hijacking.
Eventually, they’ll try “I’m hurt that you won’t consider my suggestion for <advertised product/political position>.” And people will fall for it.
Joke’s on them, if a human says that to me I tell them to shove it and block them.
Being a curmudgeonly asshole is apparently the key to surviving in this brave new world and I’m way ahead of the game!
Re:Humanising LLM Outputs Is Dumb
by WesolyKubeczek on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @01:18AM
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> An LLM is not a person. Do not humanise it. Do not personalise it. Do not treat it as more than a glorified autocorrect—that’s what it really is.
On the other hand, what an LLM is trying to autocomplete is a story of a conversation between its user and a helpful assistant, so maintaining the decorum of office politeness will align more with how it's fine-tuned and produce higher quality output.
The only thing more embarrassing than embracing personhood of 2026 LLMs is snarking "glorified autocomplete" for 2026 LLMs.
It's by LLMs definition, duh. You are dummy charmed by "reasoning".
Uh huh.
Re:Humanising LLM Outputs Is Dumb
by isjejxjwjdj on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @10:27AM
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They’re very much right though. That’s what LLMs are: glorified autocomplete software on steroids with a huge marketing push behind them.
Taking LLMs for what they are is in no way near to thinking these pieces of software possess personality, intelligence and reasoning capabilities.
An LLM is not a person. Do not humanise it. Do not personalise it. Do not treat it as more than a glorified autocorrect—that’s what it really is.
Humanising LLMs is exactly what these companies want, because then they can really take advantage of the I in AI which is exactly what makes people think these steroidal spellcheckers have any semblance of intelligence, person and personality.
Stop it.