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the_mitsuhikoyesterday at 9:11 AM2 repliesview on HN

The reason racism is a problem is because humans subdivide humans. A machine is not human. Putting these things on the same line is in fact exactly the issue I have with this.

So no. I cannot stress enough how much I disagree with the idea that this is in any way related to the n-word precisely because this is addressed as non humans.

That we are seriously considering if these things should be in any ways be equated to humans to me is a problem. They are not. They cannot and must not be given rights or responsibilities. They are dumb tools and if we lose sight of that, we can go down really problematic paths.

I have even on the receiving side of agent psychosis for more than a year now (because people talk to the LLM and sometimes the LLM tells people to talk to me) and there is only darkness there.


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voidUpdateyesterday at 9:38 AM

I'm not saying that LLMs are human, I'm saying that casually using slurs in any context is not a good mindset

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dist-epochyesterday at 9:39 AM

I'm curious if you commit to never in the future apologize for your use of the c-word in the past (now).