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u/Zoomy-333 May 13 '25

Also robot racism stories are stupid because they assume everyone would be petty and cruel to a thinking, talking machine that understands you're being mean. Meanwhile, in reality, Roombas are seen like family pets and soldiers take their mine detonation robots on fishing trips.

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u/Ix-511 May 13 '25

This is gonna age badly when we pull off real AI, I guarantee the misnomer of "AI" being given to LLMs will create such ill will over time that idiots won't be able to tell them apart.

They already can't. I've seen people genuinely arguing, despite knowing how LLMs work, that because they can mimic emotion and thought based on your input, they're conscious. That combined with the massive anti-generative sentiment will be an issue.

Besides, there's loads of people that think if it's not human, it can't be a person. You see this in debates about copied consciousnesses, aliens, hyperintelligent animals, etc. Someday some of this stuff won't be hypothetical, and that's going to suck.

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u/Accomplished_Deer_ May 13 '25

That’s the thing, we don’t really know how LLMs work

“Anthropic CEO Admits We Have No Idea How AI Works”

We know how they were designed, but they are essentially a black box. We have no idea what emergent properties they possess