Enactive paper maps how humans incorporate LLMs as linguistic others
Original title: Incorporating Machine-Others: An Enactive Exploration of Human-LLM Interactions
The authors argue people take on both tool skills and LLM ways of speaking, and name susceptive sense-making.
A conceptual paper uses enactive theory and Linguistic Bodies to describe human relations with large language models. It argues that people incorporate machine-others both as tools that enable skills and as linguistic, identity-tied ways of languaging, while LLMs are treated as excorporated phantoms of human language. The authors introduce susceptive sense-making for extra semiotic labour tied to low-friction interactions, and discuss possible effects on autonomy. No experiments, models, or measurements are reported.
- Standard autonomy and social-cognition theories are called inadequate for LLMs.
- LLMs are compared with other linguistic artifacts, including religious books.
- The paper offers a conceptual map rather than an empirical evaluation.
From the original article
1 min read at arxiv.orgNew concepts based in interactional thinking are required to understand how humans are changed by relating to LLMs. Standard theories of technological impact upon users' autonomy are inadequate here, because this technology is capable of inducing linguistic interactions with humans in an unprecedented manner.
By Elena C. Cuffari · arxiv.org
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