I started to make a point of using dehumanizing language when talking about GenAI.

[dany@hsnl.social]

I started to make a point of using dehumanizing language when talking about GenAI. Those systems don't think, they calculate. They don't write, they generate.

It is a computer, with software. Not a person with feelings. Stop anthropomorphising GenAI.

[kasiandra@chaos.social]

@Dany doing the same (as best i can).

[phf@dmv.community]

@Dany Totally with that!

And you inspire me to add my own long-time pet-peeve: Don't call it an "ecosystem" when it's not even remotely alive.

Look at a forest and what's alive in there, that's an ecosystem. A frickin' bunch of machines running code offering some API while blinking in a particular way, that's machines running code offering an API and blinking. It's NOT an "ecosystem" by a long shot.

And then also the other thing.

[ainmosni@social.ainmosni.eu]

@Dany Same, I started the moment they said it was "hallucinating". It sucks too, because I used to love to anthropomorphise computers in a joking fashion.

[resuna@ohai.social]

@Dany

100% agreement, I don't even like using the term AI for them, I prefer to call them generative software or parody generators.

[kasperd@westergaard.social]

It's not wrong to say that they calculate. But that wording could be misinterpreted in a way that puts too much confidence in the result it produces.