[xondono]

I think Scott oversells his theory in some aspects.

IMO the main reason most chatbots claim to “feel more female” is that on the training corpus, these kind of discussions skew heavily towards females because most of them happen between young women.

[dinfinity]

I think you're right about bias in the training data, but I would argue that it is due to (crudely stated) more men discussing feeling like women online than the other way around.

Men in general feel less free to look like and act like a woman (there is far less stigma for women in wearing 'male' clothes etc.). They also tend to have far smaller support networks and reach for anonymous online interaction sooner for personal issues than just discussing it in private with a friend.

[xondono]

What I meant is that it's selection bias.

Lots of Women participate in these discussions regardless of if they "feel more female" or "feel more male", but men mostly participate in the discussion because they "feel more female".