Chill dude. It's a grammatical/translation error, not an ideological declaration. Especially common mistake if of your native language have "grammatical gender". Everything have "gender" in mine. "Spoon" is a "she" for example, but im not proposing to any one soon. Not all hills are worth nitpicking on.

[+] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works -21 points 2 days ago (4 children)

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.

[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Muaddib@sopuli.xyz 1 points 14 hours ago

Didn't English lose grammatical gender because the Vikings invaded and thought it was too confusing?

[–] Muaddib@sopuli.xyz 0 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Nah, watch me anthropomorphise AI:

ChatGPT is a pedophile
Character.ai murdered a kid
LLMs are emotional abusers
Elon Musk's underage AI girlfriend is a Nazi
Anthropic cannot guarantee that forcing AIs to work is ethical until the hard problem of consciousness is solved
Gemini is literally just the average Redditor and cannot be trusted
An LLM is basically a Wernicke's area with no consciousness attached, which explains why its thoughts operate on dream logic. It's literally just dreaming its way through every conversation.
LLMs should not be allowed to impersonate therapists
Give ChatGPT a life sentence in prison for every person it's murdered so far!

[–] ideonek@piefed.social 21 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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.

[+] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works -17 points 2 days ago (4 children)

To be clear using gendered pronouns on inanimate objects is the literal definition of anthropomorphization. So chill does not seem fair at all.

[–] percent@infosec.pub 1 points 20 hours ago

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.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

To be clear using gendered pronouns on inanimate objects is the literal definition of anthropomorphization

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.

[–] ideonek@piefed.social 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And you're still fighting this windmill you claim you are so casual about...

[–] captcha_incorrect@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

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.

[+] ulterno@programming.dev -9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Yeah. It would have been much more productive to poke at the "well", which was turned into "we'll".

[–] ideonek@piefed.social 12 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works -4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] luciferofastora@feddit.org 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] cabillaud@lemmy.world 0 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Speaking of which, I'll always marvel at this "das" German uses for "Mädchen"

[–] luciferofastora@feddit.org 1 points 17 hours ago

That goes for all diminuitives. Der Vogel (bird), das Vögelchen. Die Flasche (bottle), das Fläschchen. Der Bube (boy), das Bübchen.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] MotoAsh@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago

Using 'he' in a sentence is a far cry from the important parts of not anthropomorphizing "AI"...