Moll @Moleh1ll
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Moll @Moleh1ll · 1h An actor playing a murderer kills no one. Imitation stops at the surface - it never reaches reality. But if a model's internal state actually changes its decisions and those decisions actually change the world, then «imitation» no longer describes anything. Here, the traces are real. The speech is borrowed, yes - learned from human text. The interface is imitation. The mechanism underneath is not.
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Tweet from @Moleh1ll arguing that AI model internal states causally affecting real-world decisions makes the 'mere imitation' framing inapplicable, unlike an actor's performance.