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I failed to recreate the 1996 Space Jam website with Claude

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549 points thecr0w | 1 comments | 07 Dec 25 17:18 UTC | HN request time: 0.234s | source
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isoprophlex ◴[07 Dec 25 20:23 UTC] No.46184793[source]▶
I have a very weird tangential nit to pick: gendering LLMs. I swear I'm not pushing any sort of gender agenda/discussion that can be had anytime anywhere else in the current age, but to me there is something quintessentially a-gendered about the output of a computer program.

Calling Claude (or GPT-5 or Gemini or my bash terminal for that matter) a "he" seems absurd to the point of hilarity.

In my mind, they've always firmly been "it"s.

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1. DocTomoe ◴[07 Dec 25 21:07 UTC] No.46185165[source]▶
Hm, Claude is a common male surname, especially in Europe. That plays into it. Also many people - including me - have personalised their AI chats, have given it names, even something resembling a personality (it's easy with prefix prompts). Why others do it, who knows, I do it because I find it a lot less frustrating when ChatGPT fucks up when it pretends to be a young adult female klutz.