I agree it’s pedantic and personally don’t get bent out of shape with people anthropomorphizing the llms. But I do think you get better results if keep the text prediction machine mental model in your head as you work with them.
And that can be very hard to do given the ui we most interact with them in is a chat session.
Absolutely, but there is no evidence that the grandparent was doing that, all they did was use the word “mentoring” and my argument is not that anthropomorphizing isn’t a problem - it is - but that the response to this particular HN is super pedantic.
Obviously the real people that are classifying AI as human intelligence aren’t going to be the top comment on reviewing LLM’s PhD-level papers. They are on very different, much more problematic areas of the internet.