Buccella, Alessandra and D'Cruz, Jason and Magnus, P.D. (2024) Chatbot Apologies: Beyond Bullshit. [Preprint]

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Abstract

Apologies serve important moral and social functions such as expressing remorse, taking responsibility, and repairing trusting relationships. LLM-based chatbots routinely produce output which has the linguistic form of an apology. However, chatbots are not the kind of linguistic or moral agents that could perform any of the functions listed above.

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Buccella, Alessandra abuccella2@albany.edu 0000-0001-6807-7061 D'Cruz, Jason jdcruz@albany.edu Magnus, P.D. pmagnus@fecundity.com 0000-0002-2446-3494
Keywords:	chatbots, apologies, large language models, bullshit
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Artificial Intelligence > AI and Ethics
Depositing User:	P.D. Magnus
Date Deposited:	27 Jan 2025 14:15
Last Modified:	27 Jan 2025 14:15
Item ID:	24615
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Artificial Intelligence > AI and Ethics
Date:	11 December 2024
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/24615

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