Fawkes

Please explain to me how a wristwatch is sentient or conscious.

But you see, it's okay when they gatekeep because they're defenders of truth and humanity! Gatekeeping is a good thing when used on people you don't like! What's that about equal accessibility and ableism? Shut up! AI bad!

Because if you post a public message on a public forum that everybody can see, you don't get to decide how your words are used. That's the fair use license. It doesn't require additional consent.

And how precisely is it unethical to train an LLM on public data? You keep making that assertion, but it's built off of a supposed "Lack of consent." When the fair use license was brought up, you seemed to retreat to the concept that using fair use data to make fair use software freely available to everyone is somehow bad?

You need to explain how the process itself is bad, not just use guilt by association. It seems more like you're building an opinion based on vibes, not actual reason.

Good for you. Keep wielding that shield of ignorance indescriminantly. Do you also think cryptography itself is harmful, or are you focusing on the specific use and harm caused? Guess what, the technology that made the crypto stupidity possible was used for far more than just gambling on imaginary coins. Once again, you're conflating the worst implementation of a technology with its use as a general rule. Would you defend a small set of positive and ethical uses of LLMs? Or do you condemn the entire tech, on the assumption that it is inherently bad? Do you know precisely where and how the tech developed for crypto is helpful to you, and improves your privacy and safety?

Lol no. Actually cells are demonstrably NOT sentient. They have no capacity for choice. No capacity for emotion or experience. They are literally molecular machinery. And we(scientists) understand that machinery to a shocking degree.

If you think cells have any degree of sentience, then you must make a similar argument for advanced clockwork machines. Not robots, pure wind-up clockwork automata.

Are you aware of "Implied lack of privacy?" It means places where you cannot reasonably assume privacy, like a public beach or supermarket. Public forums and public wikis are about as implied lack of privacy as it gets. If you post a guide on stack exchange on how to solve a programming issue, you revoke your rights in how that information is used. This includes using it to create new software. If you decide you don't like a program I created using your guides, well... That's too bad for you.

And no, this is not victim blaming, because I'm not defending actual theft or telling people to protect themselves more. I'm stating you cannot steal something that has been freely offered to the entire world.

Lol, tell me you don't understand anything about the technology without telling me you don't understand anything about the technology. Nobody here is defending scraping artists libraries or using copy written material. Go find a different strawman to cry at.

Yyyyyyyyup. Even attempts at honest discussion get polarized. "If you use AI(LLMs) you're an unethical AI-Bro!"

Oh... I didn't realize that my self-hosted open source small model trained on Wikipedia and Stack Exchange was unethical. Thank you for showing me the error of my ways.

Lol seriously? They weren't saying it was direct causation, just that it probably didn't help, and there was likely other underlying issues. Is mental health so incredibly taboo that even talking about it is now unacceptable?

Arguing against your staunch certainty is not the same as fully believing the counter point. I don't believe LLMs are conscious either, but claiming to be the arbiter of sentience is quite arrogant. Especially when we don't understand it ourselves.

Yes, we understand the mechanisms of biology, but we do not understand our subjective experience of freewill, or if it even exists.

Which is why your claim is both a strawman and a non sequitur.

And reading briefly through the comments, most people seem to be arguing against your certainty, not actually claiming to believe the opposite.

Are cells sentient? Bacteria, fungi, etc. Do you think they have any degree of interiority, like how simple animals do?

Nice strawman you got there. Is this relevant to the post, or do you just feel like calling random unrelated people dumb?