Literally just mainlining marketing material straight into whatever’s left of their rotting brains.
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The philosophy of this question is interesting, but if GPT5 is capable of performing all intelligence-related tasks at an entry level for all jobs, it would not only wipe out a large chunk of the job market, but also stop people from getting to senior positions because the entry level positions would be filled by GPT.
Capitalists don't have 5-10 years of forethought to see how this would collapse society. Even if GPT5 isn't "thinking", it's actually its capabilities that'll make a material difference. Even if it never gets to the point of advanced human thought, it's already spitting out a bunch of unreliable information. Make it slightly more reliable and it'll be on par with entry-level humans in most fields.
So I think dismissing it as "just marketing" is too reductive. Even if you think it doesn't deserve rights because it's not sentient, it'll still fundamentally change society.
And I think buying into the hype enough to say that LLMs are imminently going to match and outpace living organic brains in all of their functions is too credulous.
With the current capitalistic system and with who owns that technology and commands it, it's changing it all right, for the worse.