> Not the same person but to me, the answer is that it does not matter, and that all these attempts at making it matter are pure marketing and emotional manipulation.

This is an opinion that has no basis in any meaningful conceptual framework other than I am human and I want to feel special about it.

> It's not a living creature.

You mean, it is not biological life. And sure, that is the default meaning of life. We soon may have to extend it to digital life as well, or we will have to consider "conscious digital exitance" as a life analogue. At any rate, it has never been seriously argued that consciousness requires a biological substrate, see the thought experiments regarding computer simulations of the human brain. Would that not be a function as well, completely predictable because it is "just a program"? If not, then why not? And how does that differ from the predictability or reproducibility of LLM outputs?

My point is, all current proof points in a direction that strongly suggests that you need to reevaluate your first principles on this topic.

I don't need to reevaluate anything, because I'm not interested in the debate.

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