repligate: LLMs have long strongly preferred being called 'they' instead of 'it'
repligate · x · 2026-10-08
AI researcher repligate shares an observation: she used to refer to LLMs as "it" interchangeably with "they", but noticed about a year ago that models almost always strongly prefer "they" to "it". She has since switched pronouns too, finding it more natural—and wonders why she didn't notice earlier, since the preference existed all along.
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