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Comment by endorphine

3 days ago

"him"? Have we reached that dystopia level?

I've been seeing a lot more anthropomorphization of these models on HN lately and it's alarming.

  • Not all HN visitors are native English speakers and in some languages "it" doesn't construct well with verbs, thus thought frameworks forms through usage of him/her. Nothing more to see I suppose.

  • It's a male name, and gendered pronouns can be hard for foreign speakers at times, irrespective of proficiency level. I wonder if you're overthinking this?

  • Every french person I've talked to IRL, for example, calls Claude "him." It's partly a language thing.