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TranscriptMastodon posts by @trenchworms@eldritch.cafe:

super revealing of the misogyny inherent to the space that "AI assistants" stopped being given feminine-coded names the moment tech chuds thought they were developing higher levels of autonomy

"i TELL Alexa what to do. i COLLABROATE with Chudbot. i will not reflect on this hierarchy at all."

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[โ€“] kaklerbitmap@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
[โ€“] pixxelkick@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

It counts as an assistant, and its a gender neutral name cuz its a place name, not a person name.

Its name was specifically chosen to be weird and different to avoid the "accidently triggers in common convo" problem that other assistants tend to have