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  • Or the AI on shopping websites saying “I’d recommend this model…”

    We don’t have a pronoun for “this non-human unit”. LLMs are marketed as conversational, so they need to conform to the limitations of English.

    One could argue that “we” or “one” would be more appropriate, but that would sound stilted in many contexts.

    I’d prefer linguistic markers to distinguish between people and machines, but we haven’t gotten there yet.