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So is a command prompt.

Command prompts don't speak English.

Command prompts don't get asked questions like "What do you think about [topic]?" and have to generate a response based on their study of human-written texts.

There is again no need for first person pronouns there.

E.g. 'File not found' vs 'Sorry I could not find the file you were looking for.' Same stuff, but one just adds an artificial and unnecessary anthropomorphization.

Sure but I don't control the LLM's first person pronouns.

It anthropromorphizes itself.

A procedure is agnostic past the procedural rules (a calculator only follows a determined flow the way anyone could do without relevant differences); a stochastic process is inherently personal (non deterministic processes have internal biases).

In your example:

-- "iteration over filenames table reaches end → file not found";

-- "non-deterministic choice over lookup strategy does not return a positive → sorry I could not find the item"

LLMs are 100% deterministic. The facade of randomness is injected solely by a superfluous rng factor.

Even if in the forward pass there would be no "temperature" tilting, the NN training would still be performed through different processes on different implementations, making the outputs "personal".

Agnew, if you converse with your command prompt we are glad you came here for a break ;)

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