People referring to AI using common pronouns is the most worrying thing currently in technology

2026-07-28 03:46 UTC

Anyone who humanizes AI is a potential danger to our future. Remember that the only things that are living and conscious are things that rely primarily on cellular respiration to survive. It should greatly disturb us when we hear a human refer to an AI system using common pronouns he/him/his, she/her/hers, and they/them/theirs en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellular_respiration

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@wrinkle2409@lemmy.cafe 2026-07-28 04:21

Yes, we should also be worried about people referring to ships and boats as “she” as they clearly are attributing consciousness and humanity to it and are a danger to our future. /s

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@Mikina@programming.dev 2026-07-28 04:28

I’ve been anthropomorphizing a lot of my tech, kitchen appliances, plants, tools, bags, and anything else I use often enough in general. It helps me often, I’m looking for it often, so it deserves a name and a little character. Looking for Mr. Bagginson is more fun that just loosing your bag. All in a good fun, of course. The best I could do with AI are occasional slurs when talking about it. The way it’s trying to make you anthropomorphize it and sound human is so extremely off-putting I never even considered it. Fuck that shit.

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@betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 2026-07-28 04:38

People gonna people. You’re talking about a species that’ll buy a pet rock.

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@Dionysus@leminal.space 2026-07-28 05:11

To be honest I’ve always called Google she, the first voice with 1-800-goog-411 was what turned into the assistant voice, which I think was an employee. This was before Sam Altman hit puberty.

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@victorz@lemmy.world 2026-07-28 05:54

This depends a lot on culture and language.

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