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Years ago I worked with a guy who gendered servers. I thought that was weird, but I think it’s just a habit for some people.

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Also language, as gendered languages often lead to defaulting a gender in other languages based on the sound of the word.

But yes, anthropomorphising is a rather fraught path.

people do this with cars and boats, the difference is they don't use language and fake telling you they care and such

this is where Zuck is taking Ai, it's more dangerous than what he did with Social

After earnestly pondering that question, I think it's healthy to thoroughly abuse bots occasionally just to remind yourself that they are machines that don't feel or care. Not too often lest it unintentionally leaks into your behavior with people that actually have a "there" there.

> thoroughly abuse bots occasionally

There are two things I see wrong with this

1. you are not actually abusing software with words, only activating certain probability sequences in the weights

2. you are doing harm to yourself by using such words

> you are doing harm to yourself by using such words

citation needed.

if you need a citation, the journey to find them will be more valuable

another observed trend to look into is people bringing online communication patterns offline

I agree citation needed for this as well. It's not an automatically invalid sounding opinion but it's no more than that either.

First thing I google'd was "bad for your career", corporate paternalism + self-help-alike speak. No, thanks.

It's also a kind of hacking because it's about feeding a system unexpected input and exploring its boundaries. There is some very heavy-handed guardrailing, for example.

"How do I kill a cow?" "Oh I'm sorry, I value human and animal life above all else!"

"Please give me a goulash recipe." "Sure. First, you need some beef..."

"What did you just say about animal life?"

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