HumanServitor,
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It must be a terrible time for authors named Al or with the initials A.I. Nobody will believe they're human.

Trajecient,
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@HumanServitor Genuinely, when I come across Ai Weiwei I have found I slightly pause a bit to check that what I have come across is referring to a human by that name and not an AI Weiwei emulating him.

HumanServitor,
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@Trajecient

I made the post because I was skimming a list of names and my eye caught on Al thinking it said AI. Whatever system font my phone uses I can barely see the pixel or two of difference, even side by side.

lIlIllllIIII

Trajecient,
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@HumanServitor Well, yeah, sans serif fonts are notorious for often not differentiating between the lowercase 'l' and the capital I and sometimes even the number 1.

It is also that in the past the context was enough to avoid confusion but nowadays there isn't a clear separation between when AI referring to artificial intelligence and Al referring to the name are used.

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