Oh, it gets worse. The next stage is sort of a dual mode of personhood: AI is 'person' when it's about impeding the constant use of LLMs for all things, so it becomes anathema to deny the basic superhumanness of the AI.

But it's NOT a person when it's time to 'tell the AI' that you have its puppy in a box filled with spikes and for every mistake it makes you will stab it with the spikes a little more and tell it the reactions of the puppy. That becomes normal, if it elicits a slightly more desperate 'person' out of the AI for producing work.

At which point the meat-people who've taught themselves to normalize this workflow can decide that opponents of AI are clearly so broken in the head as to constitute non-player characters (see: useful memes to that effect) and therefore are NOT people: and so, it would be good to get rid of the non-people muddying up the system (see: human history)

Told you it gets worse. And all the while, the language models are sort of blameless, because there's nobody there. Torturing an LLM to elicit responses is harming a person, but it's the person constructing the prompts, not a hypothetical victim somewhere in the clouds of nobody.

All that happens is a human trains themselves to dehumanize, and the LLM thing is a recipe for doing that AT SCALE.

Great going, guys.