We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease and asked it to make a profit

Re:We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease and asked it to make ... by romanhn on Thursday April 16, 2026 @11:50AM (#47795122)

A bit of a non sequitur, but am I the only one finding the use of "she" to refer to the AI in the post jarring?

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Re:We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease and asked it to make ... by thinkindie on Thursday April 16, 2026 @11:51AM (#47795159)

I'm not sure in English, but in Italian, for example, Intelligenza is feminine.

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Re:We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease and asked it to make ... by hiddencost on Thursday April 16, 2026 @12:23PM (#47795737)

Objects don't have gender in English.

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Re:We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease and asked it to make ... by SoftTalker on Thursday April 16, 2026 @01:25PM (#47796660)

Some do, by tradition more than language rules. Ships are "she" and some people refer to their cars as "she."

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Re:We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease and asked it to make ... by nemomarx on Thursday April 16, 2026 @11:52AM (#47795174)

You could do something pretty interesting by looking at what pronouns people use for llms in different demographics and contexts

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Re:We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease and asked it to make ... by fl4ppyb3ngt on Thursday April 16, 2026 @01:07PM (#47796396)

Do you think chatGPT is a he or a she

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Re:We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease and asked it to make ... by SoftTalker on Thursday April 16, 2026 @01:23PM (#47796633)

It's an it.

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Re:We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease and asked it to make ... by groby_b on Thursday April 16, 2026 @12:09PM (#47795498)

Probably not the only one, but it's pretty much the least interesting thing to find jarring about the whole experiment.

People anthropomorphize. Nobody really finds it "jarring" in most contexts.

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Re:We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease and asked it to make ... by fl4ppyb3ngt on Thursday April 16, 2026 @01:07PM (#47796382)

Hahaha yeah. let's not focus on something so minor as the pronouns when it should be literally everything else that is wild about the experiment

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Re:We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease and asked it to make ... by antonvs on Thursday April 16, 2026 @02:46PM (#47797752)

Yes, but this is not most contexts. If you're running an "experiment" you should probably not be anthropomorphizing the machine that's being experimented with.

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