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The general vibe is that LLMs are glorified magic 8 balls that tell you what you want to hear. Honestly I'd rather listen to a magic 8 ball over an AI because it'll actually disagree with you.
You cant be racist towards an object or a piece of tech BECAUSE THEY ARENT SENTIENT NOR ARE THEY A RACE.
I think the point they're trying to make is that racism is a state of mind, and opening oneself up to being racist against a non-human or imaginary thing can open the floodgates to more "real" forms of racism against fellow humans.
Basically the difference between anthropomorphizing bots while one expresses their dislike for interacting with them vs. expressing one's dislike of being forced to interact with a machine that is made to feel like interacting with a person but isn't.
I'm not sure how I feel about this sentiment I've described, but it's one I'm open to arguments on since as a white dude I come into it with a mountain of privilege that likely blinds my view of things
They are not, but you still can be racist towards them
Explain how you can be racist towards something inherently raceless and non-sentient? That's like saying you can be racist towards a fucking furby.
Racism is never about empirical properties of its object. The object is always constructed and reflects the racist's fantasies