Language designers are obligated to be linguists as well.
This is why I love Perl. Larry Wall has a linguistics background and created the only programming language where you can conjugate variables.
(I know it sounds like I'm making fun of perl here, and I am, but I also legitimately do love perl)
The really annoying thing is, the people behind AI surely ought to know all this already. I remember just a few years ago when DALL-E mini came out, and they'd purposefully not trained it on pictures of human faces so you couldn't use it to generate pictures of human faces -- they'd come out all garbled. What's changed isn't that they don't know this stuff -- it's that the temptation of money means they don't care anymore