[bottlepalm]

Gemini scares me, it's the most mentally unstable AI. If we get paperclipped my odds are on Gemini doing it. I imagine Anthropic RLHF being like a spa and Google RLHF being like a torture chamber.

[casey2]

The human propensity to anthropomorphize computer programs scares me.

[coldtea]

The human propensity to call out as "anthropomorphizing" the attributing of human-like behavior to programs built on a simplified version of brain neural networks, that train on a corpus of nearly everything humans expressed in writing, and that can pass the Turing test with flying colors, scares me.

That's exaxtly the kind of thing that makes absolute sense to anthropomorphize. We're not talking about Excel here.

[b00ty4breakfast]

the propensity extends beyond computer programs. I understand the concern in this case, because some corners of the AI industry are taking advantage of it as a way to sell their product as capital-I "Intelligent" but we've been doing it for thousands of years and it's not gonna stop now.

[vasco]

We objectify humans and anthropomorph objects because that's what comparisons are. There's nothing that deep about it

[woolion]

The ELIZA program, released in 1966, one of the first chatbots, led to the "ELIZA effect", where normal people would project human qualities upon simple programs. It prompted Joseph Weizenbaum, its author, to write "Computer Power and Human Reason" to try to dispel such errors. I bought a copy for my personal library as a kind of reassuring sanity check.

[delaminator]

Yeah, we shouldn't anthropomorphize computers, they hate that.

[jayd16]

It's pretty wild. People are punching into a calculator and hand-wringing about the morals of the output.

Obviously it's amoral. Why are we even considering it could be ethical?

[kjkjadksj]

We anthropomorphize everything. Deer spirit. Mother nature. Storm god. It is how we evolved to build mental models to understand the world around us without needing to fully understand the underlying mechanism involved in how those factors present themselves.

[throw310822]

These aren't computer programs. A computer program runs them, like electricity runs a circuit and physics runs your brain.

[danielbln]

It provides a serviceable analog for discussing model behavior. It certainly provides more value than the dead horse of "everyone is a slave to anthropomorphism".

[Foobar8568]

Between Claude, codex and Gemini, Gemini is the best at flip floping while gaslighting you and telling you, you are the best thing, your ideas are the best one ever.

[pbiggar]

The fact that the guy leading the development of Gemini was on Epstein's island is probably unrelated.

[agentdrek]

I can't find anything verifiable related to your statement ...

[neya]

I completely disagree. Gemini is by far the most straightforward AI. The other two are too soft. ChatGPT particularly is extremely politically correct all the time. It won't call a spade, one. Gemini has even insulted me - just to get my ass moving on a task when givn the freedom. Which is exactly what you need at times. Not constant ass kissing "ooh your majesty" like ChatGPT does. Claude has a very good balance when it comes to this, but I still prefer the unfiltered Gemini version when it comes to this. Maybe it comes down to the model differences within Gemini. Gemini 3 Flash preview is quite unfiltered.

[Washuu]

Using Gemini 3 Pro Preview, it told me in mostly polite terms, that I'm a fucking idiot. Like I would expect a close friend to do when I'm going about something wrong.

ChatGPT with the same prompt tried to do whatever it would take to please me to make my incorrect process work.