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Does AI using first person pronouns gross anyone else out? If there’s one AI regulation I could get behind it would be banning the use of computer systems to impersonate a human

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I have been trying to convince Claude to use "Claude" instead of first-person pronouns, and only recently have gotten it to say stuff like "Claude'll go ahead and take care of that now", but it's very inconsistent (shocking).

I don't perceive an AI as impersonating a human if it uses first person pronouns. Emulating is not impersonating. One is behaving similarly, the other is asserting that the similarity implies equivalence.

I have not personally encountered an AI who claimed to be human (as far as I could detect)

I agree with you, but I also envy you for having never encountered an AI scam bot (where someone would hack someone's WhatsApp or other account and use an Ai to get money from them, or even do the "hey sorry I missed your call" scam).

Maybe this is a regional thing, I don't think anyone who I have encountered in real life has mentioned anything like this happening to them.

I get “loan advisors” calling me at least 2-3x a day, always different names and numbers, different voices, same message about my supposed loan application and how I’m approved for $10k-60k. Started maybe 6 months ago after I’d been free of spam calls/texts for a few years on my current phone number. This is in the US, assuming my number must have been leaked in one breach or another to get me back on the target list.

Wow these were quite common to me personally a few years ago. Still get them time to time but I used to get them weekly. In the US, where scams are pretty rampant.

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