We Need Another Moral Panic About Pronouns

I'm not talking about a moral panic like the hobby horse Jordie P. rode into town on when he freaked out himself and various other idjits into thinking the Canadian government was going to force people to use specific gendered pronouns. 

It's weird that his first lecture in the pronoun war was only a couple of months before his favorite U.S. politician was elected president. It's also weird that he has fallen off the face of the earth of late and that his daughter who promotes a meat-only diet is nicknamed stinky, but I digress.

Let's take a break for a second and announce today's secret word -

🔔🔔🔔Anthropomorphize🔔🔔🔔

To anthropomorphize something means attribute human characteristics to a non-human object. 

Why panic about that?

Because one of the features programmed into AI bots is to refer to the machine in human terms. Bots refer to their mechanism in human pronouns to nudge real humans into thinking of a machine as a human or human-like entity/friend/confidant. This is done to drive engagement - to keep people's attention. 

So, bots should be forced to stop referring to machine capabilities using pronouns like I, we, me and begin referring to the machine as it, bot, thing, 

You can force a bot to stop using human pronouns maybe, but you can definitely remind yourself at all times that machines are not human and the things you see and hear on screens are not real.

Go outside or stay inside and meet some real people - the world is a much better place than the screens would like you to believe.

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