Agreed, "alignment" is also anthropomorphizing too much. What would be a better term? "Do what I want you to, but what I don't care to specify" (because doing so would miss the point of using AI in the first place)?

fun fact: the word compile also had the same trajectory - the same trajectory you complain about here with LLMs.

here's the reality: words change meaning. they are fuzzy. and when the words take on new meaning while just requiring a simple extension (in this case a computer doing a remarkably similar thing), complaining is just futile and childish.

I mean yes, alignement is bullshit concept. Especially since the values and visions the model is supposed to be aligned with are literally those of sociopathic CEOs.

but i also “align my tires” or might check the “alignment of two vectors.” if anything, thinking of alignment of anthropomorphizing seems to only inherit it from all the other anthropomorphisms used. rogue originates from a term for vagrant, right?