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He?
This is not a person and does not have a gender.
Chill dude. It's a grammatical/translation error, not an ideological declaration. Especially common mistake if of your native language have "grammatical gender". "Spoon" is a "she" in my language, but im not proposing to any one soon. Not all hills are worth nitpicking on.
This one is. People need to stop anthropomorphizing AI. It’s a piece of software.
I am chill, you shouldn’t assume emotion from text.
English, being a descendant of german, used to have grammatical gender. It has fallen out of favor since middle english. But there is still traces of it, such a common tradition is calling ships, vehicles, and other machines as a "she", but some people will default to the "generic he" as well.
Using 'he' in a sentence is a far cry from the important parts of not anthropomorphizing "AI"...
As I explained, this is specyfic example, I no more atrompomorphin it than if I'm calling a "he" my toliet paper. The monster you choose to charge is a windmill. So "chill" seems adequate.
To be clear using gendered pronouns on inanimate objects is the literal definition of anthropomorphization. So chill does not seem fair at all.
In some languages, all nouns are gendered, and it's impossible to refer to a noun without a gender. There is no "it", only (s)he.
If you ever learn a language like that, you will make mistakes. If someone hears your mistake, hopefully they'll be more forgiving about it than you are.
you really need to get over yourself. the universe does not revolve around you nor humans. the use of gendered pronouns on inanimate objects is not anthropomorphization.
And you're still fighting this windmill you claim you are so casual about...
Are you actually under the impression that one must be worked up about something to have a conversation about it? Also I never claimed to be casual, I just denied not being chill.
Have an awesome week, Atomicbocks. I unironically appreciate you spreading awarnes about various dangers of AI.
It was explained to be a translation error from a language with pronouns for all objects. I have to disagree with you on this one.
Yeah. It would have been much more productive to poke at the "well", which was turned into "we'll".
You brought this unmistaken "I speak lauder and lauder on my European vacation until waiter that doesn't speek English can finaly understand me" energy to this conversation.
I don’t care that this person, who seems to maybe be typing English on a keyboard with a different language dictionary, misspelled some words.
I care that people in general keep talking about AI like it is living or capable of thinking.
A gendered pronoun as result of translingual grammar bleed doesn't make the AI living and thinking. In German, a corpse would be he or she too (der Leichnam or die Leiche), but I'm pretty sure it's not living or thinking by definition.
You're literally looking at what has been explained at length to be an artifact of a foreign language and attacking it for something it isn't.
Speaking of which, I'll always marvel at this "das" German uses for "Mädchen"
My native language is a gendered one and it makes sense that such a mistake might be made using a MTL.
"we'll" on the other hand, is becoming one of those things on Lemmy that everyone goes around using and making others (those new to English) think that it is the correct usage. It might do a little fun poisoning some AI, but it will much earlier, end up changing word usage in ways that make the language even worse than it already is.
I would be fine being told this by someone who wants to destroy the English language, but we are clearly trying to use this as the international communication medium and making it worse for ourselves, just to act anti-pedantic.