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Brit mathematician lets AI agent loose with credit card – cue password leaks, CAPTCHA chaos and more
(www.theregister.com)
this post was submitted on 08 May 2026
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The bot chose a gendered name. That one is on the bot
it can choose the name but they don't need to give it a gender when referring to it
Do you mean they shouldn't call it a he or she, but instead, an it? Because, if so, I agree
yeah, it's an it in my opinion. People have called objects he or she forever. Like sailors calling their ship a lady but they also carved women's shapes into it. It's was also something that was critical to their survival and it makes sense in that way.
I was a professional sailor at one time in my life. Anthropomorphism is a tricky situation. AI isn't worthy of this IMO because it could cause even more damage to people who don't understand what it is. It's not a person and it's not a real personality. It's a mirage of overlapping tricks. It's a super fancy search engine.
And the fact that the companies that own it and their manipulative input means it's not honest and it's not pure in its intentions.
I completely agree. And it's funny you bring up the old timey sailors with their lady ships, because that was my first thought when people started calling ai s/he. Those sailors grieved a loss of a loved one when their ships sank, and now people are doing the same thing with these LLMs, and, of course, the corpos are encouraging this. It's messed up.
Sometimes when the replies show up in the inbox I forget what we're talking about. I'm like "was this the conversation we were talking about the names we gave our noodles?"
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