Mastodawn

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.

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Peter H. Fröhlich

@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.