Unsurprisingly excellent piece from Ted Chiang about LLMs and particularly about Claude. Claude (or any other LLM) is not conscious or "intelligent" in the general understanding of the word, but if it were, then it would be, essentially, a slave.
www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...
www.theatlantic.com
Taken to its logical conclusion, this line of thinking is absurd—and damning.
