LLMs are intelligence without agency—what we might call "vox sine persona": voice without person. Not the voice of someone, not even the collective voice of many someones, but a voice emanating from no one at all. — Benj Edwards Tags: benj-edwards, ai-personality, generative-ai, ai, llms| Simon Willison's Weblog
Simply put, my central worry is that many people will start to believe in the illusion of AIs as conscious entities so strongly that they’ll soon advocate for AI rights, model welfare and even AI citizenship. This development will be a dangerous turn in AI progress and deserves our immediate attention. We must build AI for people; not to be a digital person. [...] we should build AI that only ever presents itself as an AI, that maximizes utility while minimizing markers of consciousness. Ra...| Simon Willison's Weblog
I’ve been dipping into the r/ChatGPT subreddit recently to see how people are reacting to the GPT-5 launch, and so far the vibes there are not good. This AMA thread …| Simon Willison’s Weblog
Relatively thin post from OpenAI talking about their recent rollback of the GPT-4o model that made the model way too sycophantic - "overly flattering or agreeable", to use OpenAIs own …| Simon Willison’s Weblog