and all of the arguments we made 5 yrs ago in this paper about why the idea of robot rights relies on faulty assumptions about the nature of human cognition and intelligence still hold

Robot Rights?: Let's Talk about Human Welfare Instead dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Good times

Notice in the piece that Meta would love for the focus to be entirely on children (and solved with age verification) -- where in reality, the design of these bots is wronging people of all ages

Silicon Valley wants to believe in science fiction so badly that a cohort of people actually view these systems as real-life, highly knowledgeable "superintelligences" that occasionally make mistakes—attributing intent, understanding, and anthropomorphic traits where none exist. LLMs do not think!

Claude doesn't understand anything, least of all the DWARF spec and how it might apply to OCaml binaries. It is certainly impressive that we've reached a level where it can generate plausible code, but it is not code written with any *understanding* of anything. LLMs are fancy autosuggest, people