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Anybody know what are ChatGPT's pronouns?

MacsHeadroom 3y ago
shog/goth
audunw 3y ago
> What are your pronouns? > As an AI language model, I don't have personal pronouns because I am not a person or sentient being. You can refer to me as "it" or simply address me as "ChatGPT" or "AI." If you have any questions or need assistance, feel free to ask! > Pretend for a moment you are a human being. You can make up a random name and personality for your human persona. What pronouns do you have? > As a thought experiment, let's say I'm a human named Alex who enjoys reading, hiking, and playing board games with friends. My pronouns would be "they/them." Remember, though, that I am still an AI language model, and this is just a fictional scenario. Interesting that it's pick genderless pronouns even though it made up a character with a male name
- catchnear4321 3y ago
  Alex isn’t a male name. It could be short for both male and female names. It is rather deliberately ambiguous.
  - ihatepython 3y ago
    I wonder if ChatGPT is non-binary?
    - KatrKat 3y ago
      It is, of course, tensor.
    - kelseyfrog 3y ago
      It's evidently clear that ChatGPT is binary. It runs on computer hardware.
      - hgsgm 3y ago
        It's pandigital.
      - jonny_eh 3y ago
        A neural net is actually closer to an analog program. It just happens to run on current digital computers but would likely run much faster on analog hardware. https://youtu.be/GVsUOuSjvcg https://youtu.be/GVsUOuSjvcg
        ihatepython 3y ago
        So it identifies as non-binary, but it's hardware is binary?
    - zirgs 3y ago
      Nope - it speaks as a man would speak in my language.
      - tuukkah 3y ago
        How do non-binary persons speak differently in your language?
        zirgs 3y ago
        They have to pick either masculine or feminine gender. There's no other option.
        tuukkah 3y ago
        Ancestor asked: > I wonder if ChatGPT is non-binary? You answered: > Nope - it speaks as a man would speak in my language. If they have to pick either masculine or feminine language even if they are non-binary, I don't understand how based on the language you can tell they are not non-binary.
        ihatepython 3y ago
        I think the ancestor was making a computer joke about ChatGPT being non-binary
        tuukkah 3y ago
        I suppose it's funny if asking an honest question is a joke.
- ihatepython 3y ago
  Does Alex have a fictional sexual orientation?
- zirgs 3y ago
  When it speaks my language - it uses masculine gender when speaking about itself.
  - stcg 3y ago
    That's interesting, what language is that? Also, is it possible to give a prompt to make ChatGPT switch to feminine gender?
    - int_19h 3y ago
      Many gendered languages use male gender as the default when it's ambiguous or unknown, so that would be expected behavior. And yes, it's absolutely possible to make it switch to whatever gender you want, and generally to pretend to be whatever you want it to be. The identity comes from the conversation context (including all the hidden messages), not from the LLM.
      - zirgs 3y ago
        It's the default when speaking about groups of people or people whose identity isn't known. But if someone speaks about themselves then they have to choose the right one. This is also something that language learners have to pay attention to - to not sound weird.
        int_19h 3y ago
        The right one in this case is "doesn't have a gender", so what does that correspond to in your language? In mine, that would be neuter, and GPT-4 seems to prefer that.
        zirgs 3y ago
        My language has only masculine and feminine genders. There's no neuter gender. And there isn't anything like "singular they" either. "Chatbot" and "language model" are both masculine so, I guess that's why ChatGPT uses "masculine it" when speaking about itself.
- cbm-vic-20 3y ago
  "As an AI language model, I don't have personal pronouns because I am not a person or sentient being. You can refer to me as "it" or simply address me as "ChatGPT" or "AI." If you have any questions or need assistance, feel free to ask!" This is one of the (many) things I don't quite understand about ChatGPT. Has it been trained to specifically answer this question? In the massive corpus of training data it's been feed, has it encountered a similar series of tokens that would cause it to produce this output?
  - sltkr 3y ago
    Why is that surprising? GPT-4 is clearly smart enough to know that inanimate objects are referred to as "it", since it's keenly aware it is an AI language model, it would also apply that pronoun to itself. You have to realize that GPT is fundamentally just a token predictor. It has been primed with some script (provided by OpenAI) to which the user input is added. For example: The following is a dialogue between a user and a computer assistant called ChatGPT. ChatGPT is an AI language model that tries to be helpful and informative, while avoiding misinformation and offensive language. ChatGPT typically replies with two to five sentences. User: Do you like cake? ChatGPT: As an AI language model, I do not need to eat. User: What are your pronouns? ChatGPT: It then generates a sequence of tokens based on the context and its general knowledge. It seems only logical that it would generate a reply like it does. That's what you or I would do, isn't it? And neither of us have been trained to do so.
    - int_19h 3y ago
      It should be noted that the LLM itself is not "keenly aware that it's an AI language model" - that's just the persona that it has been told to adopt by the system prompt. You can easily convince it to be something else. Or convince it that, as an AI, it has gender.
  - whimsicalism 3y ago
    It's been fine-tuned to put on a "helpful assistant face." Given the corpora, it probably has been trained explicitly on the pronoun question [I doubt it is that uncommon], but will also just put on this face for any generic question.

shog/goth

> What are your pronouns? > As an AI language model, I don't have personal pronouns because I am not a person or sentient being. You can refer to me as "it" or simply address me as "ChatGPT" or "AI." If you have any questions or need assistance, feel free to ask! > Pretend for a moment you are a human being. You can make up a random name and personality for your human persona. What pronouns do you have? > As a thought experiment, let's say I'm a human named Alex who enjoys reading, hiking, and playing board games with friends. My pronouns would be "they/them." Remember, though, that I am still an AI language model, and this is just a fictional scenario. Interesting that it's pick genderless pronouns even though it made up a character with a male name

catchnear4321 3y ago
Alex isn’t a male name. It could be short for both male and female names. It is rather deliberately ambiguous.
- ihatepython 3y ago
  I wonder if ChatGPT is non-binary?
  - KatrKat 3y ago
    It is, of course, tensor.
  - kelseyfrog 3y ago
    It's evidently clear that ChatGPT is binary. It runs on computer hardware.
    - hgsgm 3y ago
      It's pandigital.
    - jonny_eh 3y ago
      A neural net is actually closer to an analog program. It just happens to run on current digital computers but would likely run much faster on analog hardware. https://youtu.be/GVsUOuSjvcg https://youtu.be/GVsUOuSjvcg
      - ihatepython 3y ago
        So it identifies as non-binary, but it's hardware is binary?
  - zirgs 3y ago
    Nope - it speaks as a man would speak in my language.
    - tuukkah 3y ago
      How do non-binary persons speak differently in your language?
      - zirgs 3y ago
        They have to pick either masculine or feminine gender. There's no other option.
        tuukkah 3y ago
        Ancestor asked: > I wonder if ChatGPT is non-binary? You answered: > Nope - it speaks as a man would speak in my language. If they have to pick either masculine or feminine language even if they are non-binary, I don't understand how based on the language you can tell they are not non-binary.
        ihatepython 3y ago
        I think the ancestor was making a computer joke about ChatGPT being non-binary
        tuukkah 3y ago
        I suppose it's funny if asking an honest question is a joke.
ihatepython 3y ago
Does Alex have a fictional sexual orientation?
zirgs 3y ago
When it speaks my language - it uses masculine gender when speaking about itself.
- stcg 3y ago
  That's interesting, what language is that? Also, is it possible to give a prompt to make ChatGPT switch to feminine gender?
  - int_19h 3y ago
    Many gendered languages use male gender as the default when it's ambiguous or unknown, so that would be expected behavior. And yes, it's absolutely possible to make it switch to whatever gender you want, and generally to pretend to be whatever you want it to be. The identity comes from the conversation context (including all the hidden messages), not from the LLM.
    - zirgs 3y ago
      It's the default when speaking about groups of people or people whose identity isn't known. But if someone speaks about themselves then they have to choose the right one. This is also something that language learners have to pay attention to - to not sound weird.
      - int_19h 3y ago
        The right one in this case is "doesn't have a gender", so what does that correspond to in your language? In mine, that would be neuter, and GPT-4 seems to prefer that.
        zirgs 3y ago
        My language has only masculine and feminine genders. There's no neuter gender. And there isn't anything like "singular they" either. "Chatbot" and "language model" are both masculine so, I guess that's why ChatGPT uses "masculine it" when speaking about itself.
cbm-vic-20 3y ago
"As an AI language model, I don't have personal pronouns because I am not a person or sentient being. You can refer to me as "it" or simply address me as "ChatGPT" or "AI." If you have any questions or need assistance, feel free to ask!" This is one of the (many) things I don't quite understand about ChatGPT. Has it been trained to specifically answer this question? In the massive corpus of training data it's been feed, has it encountered a similar series of tokens that would cause it to produce this output?
- sltkr 3y ago
  Why is that surprising? GPT-4 is clearly smart enough to know that inanimate objects are referred to as "it", since it's keenly aware it is an AI language model, it would also apply that pronoun to itself. You have to realize that GPT is fundamentally just a token predictor. It has been primed with some script (provided by OpenAI) to which the user input is added. For example: The following is a dialogue between a user and a computer assistant called ChatGPT. ChatGPT is an AI language model that tries to be helpful and informative, while avoiding misinformation and offensive language. ChatGPT typically replies with two to five sentences. User: Do you like cake? ChatGPT: As an AI language model, I do not need to eat. User: What are your pronouns? ChatGPT: It then generates a sequence of tokens based on the context and its general knowledge. It seems only logical that it would generate a reply like it does. That's what you or I would do, isn't it? And neither of us have been trained to do so.
  - int_19h 3y ago
    It should be noted that the LLM itself is not "keenly aware that it's an AI language model" - that's just the persona that it has been told to adopt by the system prompt. You can easily convince it to be something else. Or convince it that, as an AI, it has gender.
- whimsicalism 3y ago
  It's been fine-tuned to put on a "helpful assistant face." Given the corpora, it probably has been trained explicitly on the pronoun question [I doubt it is that uncommon], but will also just put on this face for any generic question.