Which is why Wikipedia famously uses "I" in all articles

This sounds silly, but a more comprehensive version of this is unironically what I would like to see. Personally I believe that banning the use of generative AI presented as a chat interface, or any interface designed to look like communicating with a person, is the necessary length to go to.

Felienne Hermans@felienne.bsky.social · yesterday

If we want to regulate AI, why not start with a simple ban on LLMs using "I"? Easy to build, easy to verify and deflates a hype while still allowing people to use chatbots (so no one can claim we are limiting anything) My latest for @volkskrant.nl in English! www.felienne.nl/2026-10-08/#...

The tone of LLMs only makes sense when you consider that they are intentionally set up to fool you into thinking there is a mind there. (And i guess also when you consider that they are designed to spend as many tokens as possible.)

In fact, seen in this light, it’s clear that the impersonal and non chatty tone of the ship computer is a better design for the task it was set up to do. How insufferable would it be if it was constantly responding to users with “That’s a great question. I can help you with that.”

The ship’s computer in Star Trek is a much better comparison to LLMs than Data from TNG or the Doctor from Voyager. The makers of LLMs desperately want us to think of those characters because that’s more exciting, but their technology is closer to the non-sentient computer that’s just an interface.

I agree and it always makes me think of how people interact with the ship’s computer in Star Trek. It never uses first person pronouns. Instead of “I can’t do that,” it says “unable to comply.” Instead of “I don’t know,” it says simply “unknown.”

Felienne Hermans@felienne.bsky.social · yesterday

If we want to regulate AI, why not start with a simple ban on LLMs using "I"? Easy to build, easy to verify and deflates a hype while still allowing people to use chatbots (so no one can claim we are limiting anything) My latest for @volkskrant.nl in English! www.felienne.nl/2026-10-08/#...

So much of the trust people give chatbots comes from that "I"

Lived Experience of Software Engineering. An independent research group studying the human experience of making software. leselab.org via @felienne.bsky.social

LESE Lab — Lived Experience of Software Engineering

An independent research group studying how it feels to make software — how developers think, collaborate, struggle, and thrive. We use qualitative methods.

leselab.org

If we want to regulate AI, why not start with a simple ban on LLMs using "I"? Easy to build, easy to verify and deflates a hype while still allowing people to use chatbots (so no one can claim we are limiting anything) My latest for @volkskrant.nl in English! www.felienne.nl/2026-10-08/#...

Hier is te weinig verontwaardiging over dus ik gooi hem er nog een keer in. De vuurwerkbranche wordt gecompenseerd (!) met 80 miljoen die voor spooronderhoud was bedoeld en 20 miljoen uit de klimaatpot. WTF. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...

Dutch editorial cartoonist Martijn van der Wiel finds it barbaric that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the firing-squad execution of convicted Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan to be live-streamed for the public to watch.

Ik zou het wat preciezer zeggen: programmeurs maken ze zo dat ze een ik-vorm gebruiken. Ze doen het niet uit zichzelf, dat is nu juist de personoficatie waar we ons tegen moeten verzetten!

Kees Kraaijeveld@keeskraaijeveld.bsky.social · 3d ago

LLM’s doen zich expres voor als persoon. Hun ‘ik’ is echter artificieel en misleidend. Dat moeten we verbieden, stelt @felienne.bsky.social voor in de @volkskrant.nl. Eens? www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opin... #HetGroteMediadebat

Computer Science Academia: There's nothing we can do. Let's accept and do research with LLMs. Mathematics Academia: We did not ask for this work to be done. OpenAI is an evil company. Mathematicians have a particular vision of progress that is informed by history and field-specific considerations

Antonio E. Porreca 🐳@aeporreca.org · 5d ago

The Association for Human Mathematics (AHM) statement on OpenAI’s October 6 release of mathematical documents just dropped! www.ahmath.org/statements

Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon

Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities

Can’t wait to be forcibly drugged in marriage after they remove no fault divorce

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

the tech industry is about to invent books

NEW: October 17 marks a global event called “Origin,” focused on Earth regeneration. Rather than a movement to directly influence climate policy or polluting companies, Origin promises change through synchronized prayer and body movement. Behind it? A fossil fuel heiress and an anti-vaccine doctor

Exxon Heiress Aims to Regenerate the Earth With Spirituality

The great-granddaughter of one of America’s wealthiest oilmen has teamed up with an anti-vax doctor.

importantcontext.news

one of the ways the media shows which side they prefer, is which politicians they quote uncharitably out-of-context and which they clean up for even when what they actually say and do is offensive (the Biden story ran on the front page less than a week before the 24 election)

Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC@mattnegrin.bsky.social · 6d ago

When Trump posted a video of the Obamas as apes the NYT claimed "it was unclear if Mr. Trump was aware" that he posted it

no one is asking this unless you go hang out with a very, very specific type of people

Gavin Newsom after vetoing another anti-discrimination bill

Hard to think of anything less abstract and more materially consequential than being pregnant

Marty Lederman@martylederman.bsky.social · last wk.

Samuel Alito: We won't overturn Obergefell because it's engendered reliance interests. Jan Crawford: Well, many people had organized their lives around Roe v. Wade. Alito: No, they didn't. Women merely had an "abstract" interest in "ideas about the kind of society that they were going to live in."

Announcing the merger with Titanic footage is an incredible bit

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

This tidbit was in the article. 🎈💥 ? "Goldman Sachs warned Friday that AI hyperscalers, including Meta, need to generate roughly $300 billion a year in AI services revenue just to break even on their capital spending—and $1 trillion annually to earn meaningful profits—spooking investors."

Mark Zuckerberg Loses $9 Billion In A Day As Goldman Sachs Pours Cold Water On Meta Stock Rally

Zuckerberg’s $9 billion loss was the biggest single-day drop among any billionaire Friday.

finance.yahoo.com

Bluesky has got to be the quietest social network I've ever used. I don't get much engagement here, but I always find something interesting, often intellectually engaging, and occasionally something soulful. Unlearning my social media expectations might be the whole ball game.