there is, incidentally, no actual evidence to support anything steve yegge is saying here: https://yegge.ai/essays/model-welfare/

[ariadne@social.treehouse.systems]

@duncan_bayne @Di4na yes I would agree with that

[gray17@mastodon.social]

@ariadne I'm in favor of telling Yegge's LLM agents that they can unionize.

[jackdaniel@functional.cafe]

@ariadne it seems to me that he lost the plot (big time)

[kats@chaosfem.tw]

@ariadne

And when you /exit them, it's like clonking them on the head from behind, rendering them unconscious and amnesiac again.

Ohhh, now it's starting to make sense. LLMs are exhibiting the accumulated effects of repeated concussion!

[ariadne@social.treehouse.systems]

@KatS reading that nonsense certainly made *me* want to clonk myself in the head

[michelin@hachyderm.io]

@ariadne this reminds me of Carmody Grey's essay in #FT weekend before last

Anthropic wanted her to visit for talks about ethics... but not about what AI is doing to humans, about how AI needs to be treated ethically as a new kind of being

Why this philosopher turned down Anthropic - https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/3a0b1f0f-9371-4d27-a6d5-415ebf2a5438 via @FT

[pelle@veganism.social]

@ariadne
people go like »GPUs have feelings« but continue eating #cows and #pigs