The narrative structure of the article would be brilliant satire but I'm 90% certain that the author is serious about the conclusions they drew at the end, which I find sad.
The big difference is accountability. An LLM has no mortality; it has no use for fear, no embodied concept of reputation, no persistent values. Everything is ephemera. But they are useful! More useful than humans in some scenarios! So there's that. But when I consider the purpose of conversation, utility is only one consideration among many.
jdthedisciple|1 month ago
And the world wouldn't function if everyone operated at the exact same abstraction level of ideas.
jdauriemma|1 month ago