Couldn’t help but notice the casual gendering of Claude to “he” as well.

Someone somewhere made the important observation not long ago that computer assistants tended to be gendered female when more like a secretary (Siri and Alexa) but now that AIs are “intelligent” and powerful … Claude now has to be a male.

Especially weird (and telling?) when it is objectively gender neutral as it’s not human.

Couldn’t help but notice the casual gendering of Claude to “he” as well.

“Claude” is a male given name. If you think it’s actually a problem, blame Anthropic for giving their LLM a gendered name. I’ve never gendered AI assistants, but I’m not going to begrudge people who do when it’s in the name (or in the case of old Siri, the voice, which would later be the default rather than only option).

Women named “Claude” exist, but they’re staggeringly outnumbered by men to a point where most people don’t even know of women named “Claude” – let alone would immediately associate it as masculine.

Claude is neutral and can be given to women too. Though it lost popularity over the male version. There is even a fruit called “La reine Claude” which back translates to the queen Claude. But yeah, Claude was male in my head too so I’m definitely guilty of that too despite knowing and actively trying not to anthropomorphize Large lying models