#anthropomorphism — Public Fediverse posts

The Spinning Sow (1673).

Source: Rijksmuseum

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/b68c057b-c7fc-4148-aade-740f76116784

#anthropomorphism #music #beverages #service #foxes #instruments #art #publicdomain

The Spinning Sow (1673).

Source: Rijksmuseum

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/b68c057b-c7fc-4148-aade-740f76116784

#anthropomorphism #music #beverages #service #foxes #instruments #art #publicdomain

The Spinning Sow (1673).

Source: Rijksmuseum

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/b68c057b-c7fc-4148-aade-740f76116784

#anthropomorphism #music #beverages #service #foxes #instruments #art #publicdomain

The Spinning Sow (1673).

Source: Rijksmuseum

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/b68c057b-c7fc-4148-aade-740f76116784

#anthropomorphism #music #beverages #service #foxes #instruments #art #publicdomain

The Spinning Sow (1673).

Source: Rijksmuseum

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/b68c057b-c7fc-4148-aade-740f76116784

#anthropomorphism #music #beverages #service #foxes #instruments #art #publicdomain

Marguerite (1849) by J. J. Grandville, from The Flowers Personified.

Source: The Getty / Internet Archive

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/bbaf094a-637e-43f3-8f14-9827a832ec7f

#anthropomorphism #caricatures #daisies #cartoons #floral #personification #flowers #art #publicdomain

Marguerite (1849) by J. J. Grandville, from The Flowers Personified.

Source: The Getty / Internet Archive

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/bbaf094a-637e-43f3-8f14-9827a832ec7f

#anthropomorphism #caricatures #daisies #cartoons #floral #personification #flowers #art #publicdomain

Marguerite (1849) by J. J. Grandville, from The Flowers Personified.

Source: The Getty / Internet Archive

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/bbaf094a-637e-43f3-8f14-9827a832ec7f

#anthropomorphism #caricatures #daisies #cartoons #floral #personification #flowers #art #publicdomain

Marguerite (1849) by J. J. Grandville, from The Flowers Personified.

Source: The Getty / Internet Archive

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/bbaf094a-637e-43f3-8f14-9827a832ec7f

#anthropomorphism #caricatures #daisies #cartoons #floral #personification #flowers #art #publicdomain

Marguerite (1849) by J. J. Grandville, from The Flowers Personified.

Source: The Getty / Internet Archive

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/bbaf094a-637e-43f3-8f14-9827a832ec7f

#anthropomorphism #caricatures #daisies #cartoons #floral #personification #flowers #art #publicdomain

Jasmin (1849) by J. J. Grandville, from The Flowers Personified.

Source: The Getty / Internet Archive

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/f7bc7d22-d86b-4a7b-b06d-4af06e41e538

#anthropomorphism #caricatures #curtains #hairstyle #cartoons #floral #personification #flowers #fashion #art #publicdomain

Jasmin (1849) by J. J. Grandville, from The Flowers Personified.

Source: The Getty / Internet Archive

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/f7bc7d22-d86b-4a7b-b06d-4af06e41e538

#anthropomorphism #caricatures #curtains #hairstyle #cartoons #floral #personification #flowers #fashion #art #publicdomain

Jasmin (1849) by J. J. Grandville, from The Flowers Personified.

Source: The Getty / Internet Archive

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/f7bc7d22-d86b-4a7b-b06d-4af06e41e538

#anthropomorphism #caricatures #curtains #hairstyle #cartoons #floral #personification #flowers #fashion #art #publicdomain

Jasmin (1849) by J. J. Grandville, from The Flowers Personified.

Source: The Getty / Internet Archive

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/f7bc7d22-d86b-4a7b-b06d-4af06e41e538

#anthropomorphism #caricatures #curtains #hairstyle #cartoons #floral #personification #flowers #fashion #art #publicdomain

Jasmin (1849) by J. J. Grandville, from The Flowers Personified.

Source: The Getty / Internet Archive

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/f7bc7d22-d86b-4a7b-b06d-4af06e41e538

#anthropomorphism #caricatures #curtains #hairstyle #cartoons #floral #personification #flowers #fashion #art #publicdomain

Do we say that a scientific method or tool or field of study "provides" things? 🤔 Do they "offer" things? Do they "achieve" things?

Do they even "combine" or "extend" things?

I feel like I should encourage my coauthor to reword sentences that endow inanimate methods with behaviours. Right?

Am I too obsessed with this? 😅

#anthropomorphization #editing #coauthorship #anthropomorphism

Do we say that a scientific method or tool or field of study "provides" things? 🤔 Do they "offer" things? Do they "achieve" things?

Do they even "combine" or "extend" things?

I feel like I should encourage my coauthor to reword sentences that endow inanimate methods with behaviours. Right?

Am I too obsessed with this? 😅

#anthropomorphization #editing #coauthorship #anthropomorphism

Do we say that a scientific method or tool or field of study "provides" things? 🤔 Do they "offer" things? Do they "achieve" things?

Do they even "combine" or "extend" things?

I feel like I should encourage my coauthor to reword sentences that endow inanimate methods with behaviours. Right?

Am I too obsessed with this? 😅

#anthropomorphization #editing #coauthorship #anthropomorphism

Do we say that a scientific method or tool or field of study "provides" things? 🤔 Do they "offer" things? Do they "achieve" things?

Do they even "combine" or "extend" things?

I feel like I should encourage my coauthor to reword sentences that endow inanimate methods with behaviours. Right?

Am I too obsessed with this? 😅

#anthropomorphization #editing #coauthorship #anthropomorphism

Do we say that a scientific method or tool or field of study "provides" things? 🤔 Do they "offer" things? Do they "achieve" things?

Do they even "combine" or "extend" things?

I feel like I should encourage my coauthor to reword sentences that endow inanimate methods with behaviours. Right?

Am I too obsessed with this? 😅

#anthropomorphization #editing #coauthorship #anthropomorphism

The Comic Natural History (1851) by Henry L. Stephens, from The Comic Natural History of the Human Race.

Source: The Metropolitan Museum

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/a870aa6c-d273-4ef1-9910-33e75b6a599c

#anthropomorphism #eggs #caricatures #animals #birds #human-animal-hybrid #art #publicdomain

The Comic Natural History (1851) by Henry L. Stephens, from The Comic Natural History of the Human Race.

Source: The Metropolitan Museum

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/a870aa6c-d273-4ef1-9910-33e75b6a599c

#anthropomorphism #eggs #caricatures #animals #birds #human-animal-hybrid #art #publicdomain

The Comic Natural History (1851) by Henry L. Stephens, from The Comic Natural History of the Human Race.

Source: The Metropolitan Museum

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/a870aa6c-d273-4ef1-9910-33e75b6a599c

#anthropomorphism #eggs #caricatures #animals #birds #human-animal-hybrid #art #publicdomain

The Comic Natural History (1851) by Henry L. Stephens, from The Comic Natural History of the Human Race.

Source: The Metropolitan Museum

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/a870aa6c-d273-4ef1-9910-33e75b6a599c

#anthropomorphism #eggs #caricatures #animals #birds #human-animal-hybrid #art #publicdomain

The Comic Natural History (1851) by Henry L. Stephens, from The Comic Natural History of the Human Race.

Source: The Metropolitan Museum

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/a870aa6c-d273-4ef1-9910-33e75b6a599c

#anthropomorphism #eggs #caricatures #animals #birds #human-animal-hybrid #art #publicdomain

…if trees could feel | anthropomorphism_

#humannature #treephotography🌳 #anthropomorphism #beinggreen #urbannature #photography

…if trees could feel | anthropomorphism_

#humannature #treephotography🌳 #anthropomorphism #beinggreen #urbannature #photography

…if trees could feel | anthropomorphism_

#humannature #treephotography🌳 #anthropomorphism #beinggreen #urbannature #photography

…if trees could feel | anthropomorphism_

#humannature #treephotography🌳 #anthropomorphism #beinggreen #urbannature #photography

…if trees could feel | anthropomorphism_

#humannature #treephotography🌳 #anthropomorphism #beinggreen #urbannature #photography

„Informationen wollen frei sein.“ (Hacker-Ethik)

„...aber vielleicht wollen sie nicht vermenschlicht werden.“ (KI-Ära)

#TechPhilosophie #HackerEthik #KI #AI #CCC #Anthropomorphism

Sorry, but this feels utterly pedantic. Since language (and communication) are mostly social acts, the point of using language is just so that the speaker can make themselves more easily to understand by others and not to introduce noise in the transmission. You can invent your own language but you cannot convince others to talk with you through it. Even if anthropomorphization is a real danger when interacting with LLMs, just having a real notion of how the technology works is already very advantageous when using these tools.

"De-anthropomorphizing language talks about computer systems in terms of their functionality (what people build and/or use them to do), assigns agency to people using systems and not systems, and avoids aggrandizing metaphors about cognition.

We aim to find substitutes that are as self-explanatory as possible, so that you can just go ahead and use them without having to explain. (Though of course, if someone asks "Why are you calling it that?" that's also a great opening.)

Some of these rephrasings may feel a little clunky, and they can end up longer than the anthropomorphizing shorthand. This means it takes a little more dedication to use them, but also isn't necessarily a bad thing. We should stop and think about the tech we are using, or even discussing, and what it actually does.

We'll go through the categories of anthropomorphizing language we identified in Inie et al 2026, and give examples of de-anthropomorphized versions for each."

https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/how-to-talk-about-ai-without-adding-to-the

#Language #LLMs #Anthropomorphism #AI #Anthropomorphization

Sorry, but this feels utterly pedantic. Since language (and communication) are mostly social acts, the point of using language is just so that the speaker can make themselves more easily to understand by others and not to introduce noise in the transmission. You can invent your own language but you cannot convince others to talk with you through it. Even if anthropomorphization is a real danger when interacting with LLMs, just having a real notion of how the technology works is already very advantageous when using these tools.

"De-anthropomorphizing language talks about computer systems in terms of their functionality (what people build and/or use them to do), assigns agency to people using systems and not systems, and avoids aggrandizing metaphors about cognition.

We aim to find substitutes that are as self-explanatory as possible, so that you can just go ahead and use them without having to explain. (Though of course, if someone asks "Why are you calling it that?" that's also a great opening.)

Some of these rephrasings may feel a little clunky, and they can end up longer than the anthropomorphizing shorthand. This means it takes a little more dedication to use them, but also isn't necessarily a bad thing. We should stop and think about the tech we are using, or even discussing, and what it actually does.

We'll go through the categories of anthropomorphizing language we identified in Inie et al 2026, and give examples of de-anthropomorphized versions for each."

https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/how-to-talk-about-ai-without-adding-to-the

#Language #LLMs #Anthropomorphism #AI #Anthropomorphization

Sorry, but this feels utterly pedantic. Since language (and communication) are mostly social acts, the point of using language is just so that the speaker can make themselves more easily to understand by others and not to introduce noise in the transmission. You can invent your own language but you cannot convince others to talk with you through it. Even if anthropomorphization is a real danger when interacting with LLMs, just having a real notion of how the technology works is already very advantageous when using these tools.

"De-anthropomorphizing language talks about computer systems in terms of their functionality (what people build and/or use them to do), assigns agency to people using systems and not systems, and avoids aggrandizing metaphors about cognition.

We aim to find substitutes that are as self-explanatory as possible, so that you can just go ahead and use them without having to explain. (Though of course, if someone asks "Why are you calling it that?" that's also a great opening.)

Some of these rephrasings may feel a little clunky, and they can end up longer than the anthropomorphizing shorthand. This means it takes a little more dedication to use them, but also isn't necessarily a bad thing. We should stop and think about the tech we are using, or even discussing, and what it actually does.

We'll go through the categories of anthropomorphizing language we identified in Inie et al 2026, and give examples of de-anthropomorphized versions for each."

https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/how-to-talk-about-ai-without-adding-to-the

#Language #LLMs #Anthropomorphism #AI #Anthropomorphization

Sorry, but this feels utterly pedantic. Since language (and communication) are mostly social acts, the point of using language is just so that the speaker can make themselves more easily to understand by others and not to introduce noise in the transmission. You can invent your own language but you cannot convince others to talk with you through it. Even if anthropomorphization is a real danger when interacting with LLMs, just having a real notion of how the technology works is already very advantageous when using these tools.

"De-anthropomorphizing language talks about computer systems in terms of their functionality (what people build and/or use them to do), assigns agency to people using systems and not systems, and avoids aggrandizing metaphors about cognition.

We aim to find substitutes that are as self-explanatory as possible, so that you can just go ahead and use them without having to explain. (Though of course, if someone asks "Why are you calling it that?" that's also a great opening.)

Some of these rephrasings may feel a little clunky, and they can end up longer than the anthropomorphizing shorthand. This means it takes a little more dedication to use them, but also isn't necessarily a bad thing. We should stop and think about the tech we are using, or even discussing, and what it actually does.

We'll go through the categories of anthropomorphizing language we identified in Inie et al 2026, and give examples of de-anthropomorphized versions for each."

https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/how-to-talk-about-ai-without-adding-to-the

#Language #LLMs #Anthropomorphism #AI #Anthropomorphization

Sorry, but this feels utterly pedantic. Since language (and communication) are mostly social acts, the point of using language is just so that the speaker can make themselves more easily to understand by others and not to introduce noise in the transmission. You can invent your own language but you cannot convince others to talk with you through it. Even if anthropomorphization is a real danger when interacting with LLMs, just having a real notion of how the technology works is already very advantageous when using these tools.

"De-anthropomorphizing language talks about computer systems in terms of their functionality (what people build and/or use them to do), assigns agency to people using systems and not systems, and avoids aggrandizing metaphors about cognition.

We aim to find substitutes that are as self-explanatory as possible, so that you can just go ahead and use them without having to explain. (Though of course, if someone asks "Why are you calling it that?" that's also a great opening.)

Some of these rephrasings may feel a little clunky, and they can end up longer than the anthropomorphizing shorthand. This means it takes a little more dedication to use them, but also isn't necessarily a bad thing. We should stop and think about the tech we are using, or even discussing, and what it actually does.

We'll go through the categories of anthropomorphizing language we identified in Inie et al 2026, and give examples of de-anthropomorphized versions for each."

https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/how-to-talk-about-ai-without-adding-to-the

#Language #LLMs #Anthropomorphism #AI #Anthropomorphization

RE: https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/116811128152569506

By the way, I wrote (and redrafted) my post after reading this fine article about how to talk about AI without treating it like a living entity.
I wrote "Can AI be art" instead of "Can AI create art" as well as "his repository was found by tools" instead of "coding agents found his repository".

#AI #anthropomorphism

RE: https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/116811128152569506

By the way, I wrote (and redrafted) my post after reading this fine article about how to talk about AI without treating it like a living entity.
I wrote "Can AI be art" instead of "Can AI create art" as well as "his repository was found by tools" instead of "coding agents found his repository".

#AI #anthropomorphism

RE: https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/116811128152569506

By the way, I wrote (and redrafted) my post after reading this fine article about how to talk about AI without treating it like a living entity.
I wrote "Can AI be art" instead of "Can AI create art" as well as "his repository was found by tools" instead of "coding agents found his repository".

#AI #anthropomorphism

RE: https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/116811128152569506

By the way, I wrote (and redrafted) my post after reading this fine article about how to talk about AI without treating it like a living entity.
I wrote "Can AI be art" instead of "Can AI create art" as well as "his repository was found by tools" instead of "coding agents found his repository".

#AI #anthropomorphism