I hear you, Dan, but it isn't a personal attack. It's illustrative of the fact that when we assign human attributes like ethnicity to an AI that the results lead to bigotry and misunderstanding.

My statement was made prior to any other comments or the later removal of the term ethnic, but I think my argument is still valid. "Don't do cultural appropriation via LLM."

I have to disagree. If you fire so highly pejorative a word as "bigotry" at another commenter, that's crossing into personal attack, and you can't undo it with qualifiers like "almost" and "borders on". The pejorative burns through.

The fact that the OP was actually talking about Esperanto, of all things, shows how off-base that was.

I'm sure you didn't intend your comment personally, but I'm equally sure that the OP wasn't intending anything nefarious. Pouncing on their use of a single word "ethnic" is just the sort of thing that guideline I quoted asks commenters not to do. If you had paused before pouncing, you could have come up with several other things they might have meant.

That's why it was a warning, a warning to him to not use terms like that. It's strange you'd view that as me needing the warning, but fair enough.

This may be a case where your intent didn't match the effect of the post on the reader, i.e. you meant something other than how it came across. That's common, of course.