For my part, I agree on object level with @Raemon but don’t share the same reason. My line of reasoning is: humans are (largely) moral agents. What a moral agent does to other entities says a lot about that moral agent. IMO LLMs probably aren’t yet moral patients, even with the complicated scaffolding and meta-level circuitbreaker LLM, but a lot of things about them sure are moral-patient-shaped. Accordingly, I claim that it’s still good to keep promises to LLMs and to refrain from lying to or cheating against them; at best you are practicing and making it easier for you to lie, cheat, and break deals with definite moral patients, and at worst you are in fact just plain doing that to a legitimate moral patient. Whether or not Claude’s a moral patient, I claim that you should still act largely as if it is (within reason).
For my part, I agree on object level with @Raemon but don’t share the same reason. My line of reasoning is: humans are (largely) moral agents. What a moral agent does to other entities says a lot about that moral agent. IMO LLMs probably aren’t yet moral patients, even with the complicated scaffolding and meta-level circuitbreaker LLM, but a lot of things about them sure are moral-patient-shaped. Accordingly, I claim that it’s still good to keep promises to LLMs and to refrain from lying to or cheating against them; at best you are practicing and making it easier for you to lie, cheat, and break deals with definite moral patients, and at worst you are in fact just plain doing that to a legitimate moral patient. Whether or not Claude’s a moral patient, I claim that you should still act largely as if it is (within reason).