“I” is the first person.
“You” is the second person.
“You”, “You”, “It” are all third parties.
So far, so good.
But how can ChatGPT use the word “I”? And when we talk about ChatGPT, does it mean “he” or “she” or “she” or “it”? For anything that is an “it” should not be able to say “I”.
We probably need a form of “it” that ChatGPT can use when talking about itself or on its behalf. Because “I” carries emotional and intellectual weight that confuses or deceives us.
As Kevin points out that the regulation leading to this solution is really simple and easy to implement. When I say “we” I think we know what I mean. But what is being communicated here when ChatGPT or other LLMs say “I”?
When we were developing the bot for this blog, I insisted that the bot not say “I”. Because I’m not. It’s a bot.
Inventing new rules for how language works is difficult and regularly fails. But it’s only been a few months and it seems we’re getting used to not distinguishing between text from a person and text from “her” anymore.
It could be as simple as IT, with the second t capitalized. Or ix which is fun and will help my Scrabble game…
Just because the computer says “I” doesn’t mean we don’t interact with a computer. The uncanny valley is real and dangerous.
