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There's enough disagreement among native English speakers that you can't really say any pronoun is the obviously correct one for an AI.
by jsnider3 1y ago
There's enough disagreement among native English speakers that you can't really say any pronoun is the obviously correct one for an AI.
- Wowfunhappy 1y ago"What color is the car? It is red." "It" is unambiguously the correct pronoun to use for a car. I'd really challenge you to find a native English speaker who would think otherwise. I would argue a computer program is no different than a car.
- olddustytrail 1y agoPeople often refer to their car and other people's as "she" ("she's a beauty") so you're is obviously wrong.
- Wowfunhappy 1y agoBut no one who does that thinks they're using proper English!
- jhugo 1y ago"she" is absolutely proper English for a ship or boat, with a long history of use continuing into the present day, and many dictionaries also list a definition of "thing, especially machine" or something like that, though for non-ship/boat things the use of "she" is rather less common.