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Re:We need to tell people ChatGPT will lie to them, not deba... by int_19h on Friday April 07, 2023 @08:46PM (#35489149)
Many gendered languages use male gender as the default when it's ambiguous or unknown, so that would be expected behavior.

And yes, it's absolutely possible to make it switch to whatever gender you want, and generally to pretend to be whatever you want it to be. The identity comes from the conversation context (including all the hidden messages), not from the LLM.

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Re:We need to tell people ChatGPT will lie to them, not deba... by zirgs on Saturday April 08, 2023 @01:34AM (#35490828)
It's the default when speaking about groups of people or people whose identity isn't known. But if someone speaks about themselves then they have to choose the right one.

This is also something that language learners have to pay attention to - to not sound weird.

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Re:We need to tell people ChatGPT will lie to them, not deba... by int_19h on Saturday April 08, 2023 @01:50AM (#35490905)
The right one in this case is "doesn't have a gender", so what does that correspond to in your language? In mine, that would be neuter, and GPT-4 seems to prefer that.
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Re:We need to tell people ChatGPT will lie to them, not deba... by zirgs on Saturday April 08, 2023 @02:14AM (#35490977)
My language has only masculine and feminine genders. There's no neuter gender. And there isn't anything like "singular they" either.

"Chatbot" and "language model" are both masculine so, I guess that's why ChatGPT uses "masculine it" when speaking about itself.

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