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Erik Craddock
Erik Craddock@eriklink

Clanker: A Word For The Machine

A compiler does not feel humiliated when I swear at it, a car does not suffer when I call it a shitbox and a power drill is not oppressed by being handled roughly. An LLM is more complicated than those things, and the interactions you can have with them can be truly uncanny, but a moral status does not appear just because the machine can emit text in the first person.

Clanker: A Word For The Machine

Armin Ronacher

Clanker: A Word For The Machine

Why I like the word clanker and why machines are not people.

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