I think it would improve the situation if AIs were banned from using the first person in responses or using any terminology that reflects a human mental process like when they processing and put up a message saying something like “thinking” during the delay.

April 09, 2026 - 17:44 UTC

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I proposed that to someone who is pretty knowledgeable and they said they weren’t sure it could be done, because of amount of first-person conversation in the training data, essentially. But I think it would make things much much better if the language of emotion and consciousness could be removed.
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See, but bullshit.

If I ask ChatGPT to respond to all queries in the effaced third person without anthropomorphic language or emotional descriptors, it’ll do that.
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“Generating answer”
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Generating *text*.
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I agree!
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Computers have been telling you they're "thinking" since (at least) the days of Apple IIe's in elementary-school labs. It was cute then. It's not now. But the bottle for this particular genie may be prohibitively hard to find.
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