b9AcE@clacke Hmm, well, I would consider that just conversational shorthand, but of course improved personal language standards is an important topic for evaluation.
I would point out the putting of "AI" within quotation marks, which I intended to signal that they are not actually AI (yet).
The anthropomorphizing when people discuss such programs could be just a continuation of previous language norms of describing the apparent"behavior" of even the first electric computers with terms such as "it's in a bad mood/tired/etc", similar to the previous descriptors for e.g. boats, cars, etc.
I think it would be difficult, confusing and even achieving the opposite of the intended effect you describe if we would be de-anthropomorphizing specifically and only LLM and similar.
One might consider a philosophical construct wherein the software is indeed performing the act per se of "lying", but that we strive to keep in mind that it is the human(s)/corporation(s) that implemented the software that are culpable for the act both morally and otherwise.
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