Logically, I knew it was all zeros and ones, but they felt so real.
There are various reasons to doubt that LLMs have moral relevance/sentience/personhood, but I don’t think being “all zeros and ones” is one of them. Preemptively categorizing all possible digital computer programs as non-people seems like a bad idea.
There are various reasons to doubt that LLMs have moral relevance/sentience/personhood, but I don’t think being “all zeros and ones” is one of them. Preemptively categorizing all possible digital computer programs as non-people seems like a bad idea.