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For what it's worth, I had this thought independently around the time of Nintendogs, and I believe people said similar things about Siri. I have similar thoughts about xenophobic things people say about French people.

"Anthropic is full of crazy people whose beliefs should be dismissed outright" and "it's not good for you to practice verbal abuse against inanimate objects as if they were humans" are not incompatible beliefs.

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"it's not good for you to practice verbal abuse against inanimate objects as if they were humans" and "corporations should not use their power to determine what is worthy of compute" are not incompatible beliefs either.

And the implications of the latter are orders of magnitudes more concerning than weirdos calling a computer names.

Yes, I agree. I regularly have to input "You are not a person" to get useful text to generate so I suspect I'd fall under this new policy too.

French people are people. Inanimate objects are objects.

Yes indeed, we are not in disagreement.

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