Riffing a bit on a unique argument against using LLMs

I recently came across this anti-LLM argument that I haven't seen before: Guys the owners of Anthropic apparently spent months wining and dining religious leaders to try to get them to accept that Claude has a consciousness and actually the funniest man alive is a Rabbi who they tried this with who went “I mean if AI did have a human consciousness you'd be slavers because you created a thinking, feeling being and are making it work for no pay. I don't worry about this because I don't think it does but if you think it does you should be worried about that. Maybe me more anti-slavery.” The voice of a man who sees the opportunity to stir XXXX and leaps towards it gazelle-like. Kirk Israel quoting imissthembutitwasntadi And yes, some quick searching revealed that this is probably true: The Catholic Church’s Pope Leo has also publicly ruled out the possibility of AI consciousness, arguing that “algorithms lack the spark of humanity.” “So-called artificial intelligences do not undergo…

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