They chose Claude because if you're going for a friendly human sounding personality, a first name (which is how people address each other) sounds much better. H

They chose Claude because if you're going for a friendly human sounding personality, a first name (which is how people address each other) sounds much better. How many people refer to each other by their last names in normal casual conversation, outside of maybe the military? Even ChatGPT in its heavily neutered state isn't silly enough to claim the Anthropic devs are trying to subconsciously oppress women via name choice. This constant witchhunt for sexism and racism is really tiring, btw. It's long ago blown past boy-crying-wolf territory. You should know that many of us now assume that any claim of sexism or racism is automatically false, just another attempt to dig up virtue truffles from already wrecked land. It makes the accuser look bad and worth avoiding, whilst having no effect on the reputation of the supposed guilty party.