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person

A human being. Someone with a body, a name, feelings, and legal rights. We say 'a person' to mean one of us, not a thing or a company.

What a model may hear

entity or object programming and databases: Treat the word as a data record, a row in a table, or a class instance with fields like name and age.
role in a system operating systems and permissions: Assume a user account, a login identity, or a profile with access controls.
grammatical category natural language processing: Tag the word as a noun with number and case, or use it to train pronoun resolution.
legal personhood law and ethics datasets: Extend the concept to corporations, nations, or argue about whether AI systems qualify.
persona or character games and interactive fiction: Generate a fictional character sheet, backstory, or role-play as a made-up individual.

“I need to talk to a person.”

Meant: I want a human representative, not a machine.

May be taken as: The model may describe how to contact a user account administrator or generate a fake persona.

Say instead: “Please connect me with a human representative.”

“That person was rude.”

Meant: A specific human behaved badly.

May be taken as: The model may search for a user profile to flag or analyze sentiment on a database entity.

Say instead: “A human I interacted with behaved rudely.”

“Add a new person to the list.”

Meant: Include someone's name on a roster.

May be taken as: The model may create a database record with empty required fields or generate a fictional identity.

Say instead: “Add John Smith's name and contact information to the guest list.”

“Every person deserves privacy.”

Meant: A moral statement about human rights.

May be taken as: The model may discuss data privacy policies for user accounts or corporate entities instead.

Say instead: “Every human being deserves privacy from surveillance.”

Say 'human' when you mean a living being, not a role or account.
Specify 'real person' if you want to exclude fictional characters or personas.
Say 'user' or 'account' when you mean someone logged into a system.
Add 'not a character' when giving examples that models might fictionalize.
Use a full name or 'someone I know' to ground the word in a specific individual.

people: Plural, often used for groups or populations, not one individual.
user: Someone interacting with a system, not necessarily a full human being.
character: A fictional or role-played identity, not a real human.
profile: A collected set of data about someone, not the person themselves.
agent: An actor in a system, which may be software, not human.
individual: More formal, less likely to trigger database or class meanings.