Generative AI is harmful enough when we understand it as a conventional technology, but if we confuse fluency at generating text with consciousness or moral agency, we’re at risk of assigning responsibility to entirely the wrong parties whenever anyone uses a chatbot.
~ Ted Chiang via The Atlantic

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The primary difference between deepfake photos and LLM conversations is that the people who generate the former are deliberately trying to fool others, and many of the people who elicit the latter from LLMs have inadvertently fooled themselves.
~ Ted Chiang via The Atlantic

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Anthropic is regarded as a giant among AI companies, but perhaps what it really excels in is anthropomorphism.
~ Ted Chiang via The Atlantic

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