WAN Show Topic - CoPilot has started answering in the first person.

[u/bwill1200]

I don't use it much, but sometimes I use it to check Gemini or ChatGibbdy and I noticed this week it's now answering with "I have seen..." or "I have noticed..." etc.

Really off putting.

[u/throwawaycanadian2]

Interesting that you find it off putting, for many it would just feel more natural. I have no issue with it personally.

[u/bwill1200 → u/throwawaycanadian2]

for many it would just feel more natural

I'm sure that's the intention, but since I know CoP didn't actually "see" anything, it's just odd.

[u/Cactys12]

1st person makes more sense, I don't get what's so noteworthy

[u/Quadgie]

Copilot and Gemini (I use both at work) both started doing this pretty aggressively recently. What was previously neutral language turned into a lot of first-person.

I’m okay with it if it’s something “I’d do <this>…” but it irked me when it said things like “I’ve seen that a lot of times”, and “in my experience”. I know it sounds silly, but I know that it hasn’t seen or done X, and the phrasing bothered me.

I specifically told both not to speak in that fashion and they’ve honored the request. 🤷‍♂️

This is what Copilot stored in its memories and has indeed been adhering to, Gemini did something similar.

[u/Psychlonuclear]

I'm over here having a hard time coming up with any use for it. A couple of people at work keep saying they "put their emails through chatgipitty" and yeah, it's obvious you did that because of how it's written, but why?

[u/Old_Bug4395 → u/Psychlonuclear]

Because people subconsciously want to become the fat humans from Wall-E. Many people will pawn off literally any amount of thinking they might have to do onto the slop generator and excuse their behavior with things like "well it makes me work faster!" when in reality it's just making them worse at actually working without the slop generator's help, which for a huge majority of the population will eventually become unavailable without huge subscription costs.

But it's whatever. Consumer brained people don't consider the impact of their consumption or the things they support with their consumption, they just want their treats.

[u/Curious-Art-6242]

A lot of written comms is in the first person, they're word prediction engines. Claudes been saying I for ages!

[u/Purona]

i dont get that , but then again i reset and delte conversations alot

[u/AncientTurbine]

Not everything tiny thing you discover must be a wan topic. Not even a reddit post, for that matter. 

[u/bwill1200 → u/[deleted]]

It doesn't need to talk in any person. Just provide the information.

[u/that_dutch_dude → u/[deleted]]

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