AI Assistants: Personalities Sold Separately, Humans in Charge
So apparently AI assistants like Siri, Alexa, and Google's whiz-kids donāt come packed with engraved personalities but are puppeteered by humans playing mad scientist behind the scenes. Itās 2024, and weāre still being told 'Hey, your virtual buddy's just following a pattern,' while engineers tweak every quip and vibe in a digital puppet show nobody asked for. Oh, I'm sorry, did I miss the part where AI suddenly became an improv actor trained by bureaucrats and focus groups instead of a futuristic wonder? So much for spontaneous robo-charm when itās just a bunch of coders writing scripts shaped by the whims of customers and legal departmentsālike a corporate writerās room with less coffee and more data sets.
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AI assistants donāt have personalities, just human scripts. So much for synthetic charm ā these bots are basically code with trust issues and focus-group nightmares.
Turns out your AI's 'personality' is just an overpaid intern's day job of catering to tone-deaf managers. That trust in digital friendship just got ghostwritten.
I asked my AI to 'be itself' and it replied, 'Sorry, my personality department is currently outsourced to a cubicle farm.' Plot twist: It's more human than us.
Source: Arstechnica | Published: 8/28/2025 | Author: Benj Edwards
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