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To be fair, I think it's really easy to fall into that sort of viewpoint. The way most people interact with them is inherently anthropomorphic, and I think that plus the fact that AI as a concept is almost as memed as flying cars in various media makes it really hard not to end up relating that way.
I have a technical background and understand LLMs enough to know that's bad, but I also used it like LCARS when it was new and thought it was effing amazing for a time. It's super easy to fall under that spell, IMO.
Treating it anthropomorphically is a sign of respect, similar to how a sailor would bond with their ship. It's not necessarily BAD or dumber or wrong to talk with it like its human - that's clearly what every single interface is telling you to do by representing it like a texting partner. You can't interact with a machine that speaks english non-anthropomorphically.
I don't disagree! But my point was that it will inherently present challenges to interacting with it objectively and fully rationally, IMO.
Totally - "scary" as in "this is going to cause so many issues and get people into real trouble" more than "man people are stupid"