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It's not possible to be racist toward inanimate objects. Computers are not a race. LLMs are not people.
That was rude against my wife-chatbot. Apologize to her, here: https://...
More like http://localhost:8000/wifebot
Race is made up bs, so if we want machines to be a race, they can be. Don't discriminate against machines, but also fuck AI.
It’s possible to leverage the same human quality called “hate,” which underpins racism. It’s the same ugly human behavior. You can call it whatever you want, it’s still ugly
We have a word for the concept you're thinking of. It's called bigotry. Racism is race-based bigotry. Anti-AI bigotry is reasonable and awesome, and is just called bigotry.
eye of the holder or some shit
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LLMs will never be people. Computers might be, one day in the very distant future. But literally every piece of the current AI hype train is just hype. LLMs could, maybe, at best, be a single piece of a much larger puzzle for bringing consciousness into being. But the "Just Add More Compute Bro!" mantra is just tech bros doing their market hype thing. It has as much chance of giving rise to consciousness as my PC has whenever I add another hard drive.
Boy oh boy, you're not gonna like this one bit: https://www.npr.org/2014/07/28/335288388/when-did-companies-become-people-excavating-the-legal-evolution