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[–] 92 points 6 months ago (15 children)

It's not possible to be racist toward inanimate objects. Computers are not a race. LLMs are not people.

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  • [–] 41 points 6 months ago (3 children)

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  • [–] 20 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

    LLMs will never be people. Computers might be, one day in the very distant future. But literally every piece of the current AI hype train is just hype. LLMs could, maybe, at best, be a single piece of a much larger puzzle for bringing consciousness into being. But the "Just Add More Compute Bro!" mantra is just tech bros doing their market hype thing. It has as much chance of giving rise to consciousness as my PC has whenever I add another hard drive.

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  • [+] -28 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    It’s possible to leverage the same human quality called “hate,” which underpins racism. It’s the same ugly human behavior. You can call it whatever you want, it’s still ugly

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  • [–] -5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    We have a word for the concept you're thinking of. It's called bigotry. Racism is race-based bigotry. Anti-AI bigotry is reasonable and awesome, and is just called bigotry.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago*

    No, you can't have bigotry against software. At least, not currently.

    Maybe in the future somebody will figure out how to make a sapient AI, like you see in science fiction, and then you can say that somebody is bigoted against it. We don't have sapient AI, though, so this is simply prejudice.

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