"Der Computer" is also masculine, so you have probably been calling your computer "he" for decades. Languages with gendered nouns don't quite have the same he/she/it distinction.
replyhow does that matter if its he, 'she' till its doing the work. Its artificial, shouldnt try to find means of attachment to it
replyI mean, both in English and in german, that's how you would talk to a dog. "Er hat in die Ecke gepinkelt"/"He peed in the corner" (or "she", if it's a female dog).
replyI don't know what is jarring talking about the chatbot like that.
It may be creepier if you said "she wrote that program for me" as you now assign a specific gender to the chatbot.
It's how you'd talk about a dog that you know the sex of, but if you didn't know you'd probably use "it". An LLM doesn't have a sex or gender, so I think the natural way to refer to them is "it".
replyin English, maybe. In German, not really. "Der Bot", "der Robot", "der Computer".
replyHowever, "die AI", "Kuenstliche Intelligenz".
replyAlso, "Es hat in die Ecke gepinkelt". Which pronoun you use is just as dependent on the context as in english.
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