https://emsenn.net/tags/naturallanguageprocessing/ Recent content in NaturalLanguageProcessing on emsenn.net Hugo en-us Mon, 06 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://emsenn.net/library/domains/engineering/domains/tech/domains/computing/domains/artificial-intelligence/texts/why-ai-gets-emotional-when-ideas-get-big/ Mon, 06 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://emsenn.net/library/domains/engineering/domains/tech/domains/computing/domains/artificial-intelligence/texts/why-ai-gets-emotional-when-ideas-get-big/ <p><em>This essay explains an idea from information theory in civic terms. For the formal argument with citations, see <a href="./affective-drift-in-language-models.md" class="link-internal">Affective Drift in Large Language Models</a>.</em></p> <p>If you ask a chatbot to write about climate systems, it might sound analytical.</p> <p>Ask it about care or humanity, and suddenly the tone softens: it starts to sound like a pep talk.</p> <p>This shift isn’t about the subject being “deep.” It’s about the shape of meaning in the model’s language space.</p>