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Mastodon posts by @trenchworms@eldritch.cafe:
super revealing of the misogyny inherent to the space that "AI assistants" stopped being given feminine-coded names the moment tech chuds thought they were developing higher levels of autonomy
"i TELL Alexa what to do. i COLLABROATE with Chudbot. i will not reflect on this hierarchy at all."
Defs true for NSW, Australia railways
Man says "smoking is not permitted", woman says "the next station is foo"
I first noticed as a child and it is one of the first times I remember thinking that society wants women to be servile.
It has been studied that people respond better for gendered voices in those contexts, but yeah that's probably because it's been preprogrammed into people. It's weird when you notice it in the wild.
Not preprogrammed, because patriarchy
Yeah sorry I wasn't clear enough, when I say preprogrammed I don't mean innate human behaviour, I mean societal conditioning over the entire lifespan of a person.
Ah, fair enough.
I had my hackles up 'cause some people like pretend that gender roles/perception are somehow encoded in our DNA
Nah you good, I see how you got there.