arXiv：cs.CL· James Ravi Kirkpatrick, Alexandru Radulescu, Rachel Katharine Sterken·· 3 小时前AI 评分28
与语言模型对话？研究者提出"人工物立场"框架重新定义人机交互
Talking with Language Models
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研究者提出"人工物立场"框架，将人机交互重新理解为以人工物为中介的候选文本交换，主张 LLM 输出是为效用优化的候选文本而非承载意义或言外之力的言语行为。该框架认为，LLM 是复杂的文本生成器而非言说者，会话之间无进程运行，轮次之间无记忆主体，持久存在的只是配置与记录。由此，关于 AI 交流中"I"与"you"指称、系统能否说谎或承担责任等哲学问题均建立在一个错误预设之上。
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Abstract:When we interact with large language models (LLMs), are we having a conversation? They are designed to invite us to treat them as intelligent interlocutors who remember, act, and make commitments. But appearances deceive. We introduce the artifactual stance, a framework that reconceives human-AI interaction as artifact-mediated exchanges of candidate texts. LLM outputs are candidate texts optimized for utility, not utterances bearing meaning or force. LLMs are sophisticated text generators, not speakers. Between sessions, nothing runs; between turns, no one remembers. What persists is a configuration and a transcript. The "conversation" is a user's solo performance, interpretive labour disguised by interface and artifact design. This shift dissolves recent philosophical puzzles. Questions about what 'I' and 'you' refer to in AI exchanges, about whether systems can lie or be held to promises, about the identity of our supposed interlocutors all rest on a false presupposition. There is no speaker behind the screen, hence no one to refer to, no one to hold responsible. What feels like dialogue with someone is interaction with an artifact that generates text at unprecedented scale and fit. By abandoning the conversational framing, we see these systems for what they are: immensely sophisticated artifacts that afford varied uses. The philosophical questions that matter are about the normative underpinnings of design, adoption, authorization, and human practices of use.
| Comments: | 24 pages, forthcoming in Inquiry |
| Subjects: | Computers and Society (cs.CY); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL); Machine Learning (cs.LG) |
| Cite as: | arXiv:2610.09064 [cs.CY] |
| (or arXiv:2610.09064v1 [cs.CY] for this version) | |
| https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2610.09064 arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) |
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| Related DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1080/0020174X.2026.2745114
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From: James Ravi Kirkpatrick [view email]
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