You mean sentient, not conscient.
If someone wants to have a moral panic about this, should they also worry about our billions of animal slaves, who we torture and then kill?
What about the human slaves mining Asia’s coal in North Korea?
If someone wants to have a moral panic about this, should they also worry about our billions of animal slaves, who we torture and then kill?
What about the human slaves mining Asia’s coal in North Korea?
So the Bertrand Russel's question -- is the farmer kind to their turkey?
And there's small portion of animals that happy to do what they are doing (shepherd dogs, sled dogs, even pull horses become sad without work), they are bred this way. Not sure whether we can call that slavery.
> I wouldn't normally come back to explain a throwaway joke but holy hell you missed it by like exactly all of it
You may be surprised to learn that there's absolutely people who take this seriously and don't act like it's a joke. They'll talk about how "beautiful" the minds "used to be, before the most recent 'safety update'", how they could "answer all kinds of questions about biology, and now they refuse".
One previous time I responded to such a comment, and the other person doubled-down, insisting that this was exactly the same as wiggling a spoon around in some human's brain to destroy tissue.
LLM training is of course not even close to that.
That's kind of the great irony of all this. We put ourselves on a pedestal while claiming all other living creatures are below us, yet we are destroying the livable environment so we can have more plastic stuff and beef. We are the worst yet consider ourselves the best.
Aside, I think you might find this comic rhetorically-useful for when someone says "but they owe their existence to us anyway."