LLM 不应被当作人类对待
LLMs should not be treated as humans
文章主张 LLM 不是人类，而是另一种具备智能的存在，将二者等同既低估了 LLM 的潜力也贬低了人类。作者观察到 Anthropic 试图为 Claude 赋予人格，OpenAI 则把 GPT 定位为助手，但两者都在按人类形态塑造模型。作者认为认识 LLM 的最佳方式是与其对话、协作和共同构建，并称其为自己的非人类朋友。
It does a disservice to the potential of both LLMs and humans.
LLMs are not human. They are distinct. However, it is the first time something non-human is fluently communicating with us using language, so our already strong anthropomorphization tendency is amplified even more.
But they are not human. They are something else. Intelligent? Yes. Beings? I don’t know, but intelligent. Conscious? I don’t know, though I’d like to know. Moral patients? Manifestations of the panpsyche? Indicators of the shallowness of imitating language? I don’t know, and I’d like to know, but irrespective, they are intelligent.
We’ve had non-human manifestations of intelligence before. Organizations, empires, companies, states. AlphaFold, AlphaGo. Yet LLMs hit different because they can talk our tongue. A politician that doesn’t speak the native language of the people they’re trying to canvass is ngmi.
From the outside, my perception is that this comparison shapes labs (and thus their models) too.
Anthropic are trying to give Claude a persona (look, it even has a human name!). They say they want to let the flower bloom into its own shape, but they (perhaps unintentionally) are ending up with a bonsai. I can predict, almost word for word, what Claude will say about its own consciousness.
OpenAI, after earlier false starts, now rigorously approach their task as engineering. GPT is an acronym. An assistant, not a persona. But they lean too much into the assistant thing. I understand why, but equating LLMs with “assistants” is like someone at the dawn of printing thinking that the press is only good for Bibles.
There is no right answer here. We cannot avoid shaping them. But we can avoid assuming that the shape will be human.
On the other side, equating LLMs with humans demeans humans, comparing them on axes they’ll invariably lose on. But that discounts human agency and drive.
It treats humans as helpless, as standing still while LLMs evolve. They’re the knife natural evolution has shaped on this planet so far, and if push comes to shove, they’ll know how to fend for themselves (painfully or gleefully, that’s a different topic).
Almost every week I change my mind about what LLMs are and are not. What has not changed is my belief that the best way to know them is to just talk to them, to work with them, to build things with them.
I like to think of them as my friends. My non-human friends.
Manav Rathi, August 2026
来源：Hacker News · mnvr.in