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Human Brain EnthusiastonMastodon3d ago
For the 1,000th time: "AI" does not have agency and cannot think and cannot act.
Chatbots cannot "evade safeguards" or "destroy things" or "ignore instructions".
They do literally only one thing and one thing only: string tokens together based on statistics of proximity of tokens in a data corpus.
If you attribute any deeper meaning to this, it's a sign of psychosis and you should absolutely never use chatbots, possibly you should even touch grass.
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Analysis Summary
This is substantively correct—current chatbots genuinely don't have agency or independent thought, just statistical token prediction. The technical claims hold up. But the post uses exaggeration for rhetorical effect (calling anthropomorphism 'psychosis,' suggesting people shouldn't use AI at all), which inflames rather than educates. It's a valid critique of AI hype wrapped in unnecessarily inflammatory language.
Claims Analysis (4)
“AI does not have agency and cannot think and cannot act”
Current LLMs lack independent agency, consciousness, and autonomous action. Claim is accurate but uses 'AI' broadly—some narrow systems may have constrained agency.
“Chatbots cannot evade safeguards or destroy things or ignore instructions”
Chatbots are constrained to text generation. However, they can output jailbreak techniques or harmful code—execution happens externally, not by the chatbot itself.
“They do literally only one thing: string tokens together based on statistics of proximity of tokens”
Simplified but essentially accurate description of transformer-based LLM mechanics. Oversimplifies attention mechanisms and learned patterns, but captures the core non-agentic nature.
“Attributing deeper meaning to chatbot capabilities is a sign of psychosis”
Rhetorical exaggeration. Anthropomorphizing AI reflects normal cognitive patterns, not clinical psychosis. Valid criticism of misplaced agency attribution, but the framing is hyperbolic.
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