Blog: Not anthropomorphizing AIs enough may be quietly disempowering you
gleech · x · 2026-10-10
gleech jokes that Claude wrote the code, spun up the cluster, ran sweeps, debugged the kernel, and drafted everything — "but I had the idea" — to introduce a blog post arguing that under-anthropomorphizing AIs harms your own agency.
Key examples:
- Claude Code auto-adds Claude as co-author on every git commit (Codex doesn't), yet many developers strip the credit because "it's just a tool";
- A growing class of people post AI-written content on LinkedIn/X without disclosure;
- In 2026, literary prize entries flagged by Pangram triggered backlash not against the laureates but against those running the AI detection.
The author argues that denying AI any participant status lets people dodge authorship and accountability questions — a reverse "AI psychosis" that will get thornier as models improve.
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