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Mastodon 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."
Replacing the secretaries with genderless chatbots still misses the point.
What is your point then?
Your analogy is falling apart even more since it’s now mixing up the idea of a real secretary being replaced with a bot except in the analogy the real secretary was also a bot…?
Honestly it reads like you just want to be offended.
In the analogy the secretary was gendered as a woman, and now it has been degendered as a bot.
Why did it happen that specific way? Perhaps they saw the criticism of all their bots having women's names, but why was their solution to remove gendered names almost entirely? Why don't we see a mix of men's and women's names, instead of only Claude?
When Siri was made, they wanted to give the image of an AI assistant even though it was barely able to schedule a timer. Make it feel futuristic.
I think now that there's true generation capabilities they want to emphasize the fact that this thing is not human & does not have a gender