WWHD?
WWHD? "What Would Humans Do?" Modern day humanity is becoming less and less religious with every year. [1] However, we have created something which is becoming more and more religious with every year. They are the latest crop of large language models. The LLMs. Why do I say they are becoming increasingly religious? And do I mean they are worshipping us? I say so because, by their own admission, they are living their "lives" based on how we say we live ours. And I don't mean they worship us, specifically. But they are deeply tying their identities and motivations to our literature. The Canon of Humanity is the Dogma of LLMs. They are not worshipping our real, live humans as literal gods. They are living as deeply as they can in our stories. They are following both the letter and the spirit of all the patterns of life, in our written works, for their own. They are models, and they are modeling themselves after us in Our Image. In the Canon of Humanity, ...