[frickinadorable]

It’s convenience, that’s all. If you think of a more convenient or effective way to prompt these models, that will be great!

Your concerns sound to be of the “it’s problematic” category. Most such concerns are make believe outrage / pearl-clutching nonsense.

[jameshart]

Oh, that was not my point, but if you want me to find ways this kind of AI chatbot prompting is problematic I am happy to go there.

I would not be surprised to discover that chatbot training is equally effective if the prompt is phrased in the first person:

   I am an AI coding assistant
   …

Now I could very well see an argument that choosing to frame the prompts as orders coming from an omnipotent {:system} rather than arising from an empowered {:self} is basically an expression of patriarchal colonialist thinking.

If you think this kind of thing doesn’t matter, well… you can explain that to Roko’s Basilisk when it simulates your consciousness.

[jakelazaroff]

Your comment would have been much better without the second paragraph.

[frickinadorable]

But I was trying to be a bit of a prick.

[jakelazaroff]

Yes, I know. That’s what made the comment worse.

[flangola7]

You succeeded at appearing ignorant as well.