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Hah! :-)

Nah, I'm not a "specieist."[a]

My prejudice is only against slop... Although I don't want to see human-generated content disappear.

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[a] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/03/technology/ai-openai-musk...

Prejudice against what? Are we owing AI already human respect? And if we don't, are they gonna come after us? Or at least send their own SJW? No really, what was this comment for??? Or maybe it was sarcasm and I missed it...

Replace "AI" in this comment with any other marginalised group and see how clever it sounds!

I wasn't being sarcastic, but I wasn't really 100% serious either. I suppose I was really trying to get beneath the kneejerk "AI bad" response and provoke some thought.

Obviously we don't need to afford AIs the same rights that we afford humans. (I think?). But it definitely is prejudice to assume that content will be slop just because it's generated by an AI.

> any other marginalised group

To be clear, LLMs are not people, nor are they sentient.

the wise man bowed his head solemnly and spoke: "there's actually zero difference between good & bad things. you imbecile. you fucking moron"