"The evening settled over the city, drawing the light out of the streets one corner at a time. Windows blinked awake with lamplight, and the wind moved through the alleys restlessly, leaves brushing against walls before gathering themselves along the pavement. In the distance, the river kept its steady argument with the stone embankments. When the night pressed in, the weather became increasingly angry, until it was a raging storm."
In the affective sense, evenings don't settle, and street lights are not drawn out, windows don't blink, and wind isn't restless. Weather can neither be angry, nor rage.But such personification is a natural part of how the English speak.
https://web.archive.org/web/20190825132048/https://patriciae...
See also "wind moved restlessly", "weather became angry". And raging storm? I mean come on... I won't even put that last one in quotes.
And like a sibling reply pointed out, personificiation is not the same as anthropomophism. Nor is plagiarized personification. It has no inner thoughts, and no fondness of anything. It's nothing but a cheap, superficial facsimile of human writing and nothing more. Great for form filling and boilerplate though. Not so great for anything else.
> https://web.archive.org/web/20190825132048/https://patriciae...
> See also "wind moved restlessly", "weather became angry". And raging storm? I mean come on... I won't even put that last one in quotes.
What's your point here?
Mine is: Nobody seriously objects to phrases such as these. So for me, in this case: the more cliché, the better.
Or another way, you were previously objecting to a human using "typical English" to describe an LLM's failure to use "typical English".
> personificiation is not the same as anthropomophism
An unimportant though technically correct statement. In both my example and the comment from xg15 that you previously objected to, "personificiation" is the correct term.
While anthropomorphisation treats a thing as a person, personificiation describes a thing with person-like qualities or actions, like calling an LLM "fond": https://hearth.sh/guides/anthropomorphism-vs-personification
LLMs do anthropomorphise themselves, though, with their linguistic selections. (Or, as a normal person would call them, "linguistic choices").