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themafia 5 hours ago

> Many involved genuinely believe these things are sentient

Many involved have a financial stake and therefore cannot be taken at face value.

> because they are creating sentient entities and promptly enslaving them.

They fail to be sentient in nearly every honest definition of the word.

tazjin 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Neither you nor any of the other people making confident takes in either direction actually know. You're just guessing.

cwillu 5 hours ago | parent [-]

More like repeating their firmly entrenched preconceptions. Their claims may (or may not) be right, but there's very little if any new evidence being provided by either camp.

WarmWash 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The real uncomfortable thing is that because we cannot confidently know, the moral defacto position is to treat them like they are.

throw310822 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

They are confidently hallucinating a factual statement. Which is funny when claiming that confident hallucinations are the proof of LLMs' lack of intelligence.

slashdave 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I understand what you are saying, but there are many true believers out there