AI parody rewrites AP Stylebook's anti-anthropomorphizing rule back at the stylebook itself
repligate · x · 2026-09-24
AP Stylebook published a guideline on AI writing: systems don't think, feel, want or understand—avoid anthropomorphizing and instead describe what a system does, how well it performs, who built it, and who could be affected.
@Plinz ran the exact formula back at the stylebook: APStylebook does not think, feel, want or understand—instead explain that it 'works by distorting language to modify public opinion, harms the understanding of technology, is built by grifters and could affect vulnerable teachers and journalists.' The deadpan recursion has been circulating in AI circles as satire of media style guides' language policing.
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