[thethirdone]

There is a long history of people thinking humans are special and better than animals / technology. For animals, people actually thought animals can't feel pain and did not even consider the ways in which they might be cognitively ahead of humans. Technology often follows the path from "working, but worse than a manual alternative" to "significantly better than any previous alternative" despite naysayers saying that beating the manual alternative is literally impossible.

LLMs are different from humans, but they also reason and make mistakes in the most human way of any technology I am aware of. Asking yourself the question "how would a human respond to this prompt if they had to type it out without ever going back to edit it?" seems very effective to me. Sometimes thinking about LLMs (as a model / with a focus on how they are trained) explains behavior, but the anthropomorphism seems like it is more effective at actually predicting behavior.