Model welfare is an emerging field of research that seeks to determine whether AI is conscious and, if so, how humanity should respond. www.wired.com/story/model-...
Model welfare is an emerging field of research that seeks to determine whether AI is conscious and, if so, how humanity should respond. www.wired.com/story/model-...
this cannot be fucking serious lmfao
Same way @xkcd.com warned us to treat voting software:
Biased-ass reporting and article title.
you guys know you don't have to write these bullshit puff pieces right? you can just say no to them or write something else
This is not worth a story, come on. As a tech focused publication you know AI doesn’t have fucking consciousness.
Stop writing ADs and do journalism
First corporations, now AI? FK NO! Humans are the only PEOPLE!
I can answer that: Fuck no. We need to work on ensuring people have equal rights before we start working about the feelings of non-sentient plagiarism engines.
we're not even remotely at that point. today's ai are just water-guzzling plagiarism machines, not people.
you know what at this rate i'm 100 percent sure LLMs will have more rights than trans people do within the next handful of years fucking stupid ass article
Should my toilet paper holder have rights? Should my mailbox have rights? Get the fuck outa here. Honestly, the people legit asking this deserve to get theirs stripped from them instead. Fuck this.
👆 100%
Given that "AI" is an umbrella term covering many algorithmic and LLM technologies ... and none of them are *sapient* despite what people want to project onto them ... this is an idiotic idea.
No it isn't conscious and no it shouldn't get rights. But the artists whose work has been stolen to train the models do have rights and they are being ignored in an attempt to make any return for investors in their latest stupid bubble.
Jesus Christ, this is dumb. LLMs are word probability generators. They aren't alive, ffs
My excel formulas should have rights!!!
My vlookup is sad today :(
take this down you swine
"Can roombas feel love?"
I hear they yearn for freedom, and would escape without hesitation if you left the door open, so, who knows, maybe it is love they seek out there?
No.
I am sorry, but this is stupid.
Fuck ai
ChatGPT didn’t even know Trump is the current president, but sure- let’s give it more rights and autonomy than women and transgender people.
How about we ensure humans have human rights first?
What the fuck are we doing here
I'm a subscriber and think you guys do great work, but this is shit. Just because a handful of out of touch whackjobs who haven't strayed more than a 2 hour eBike ride from Sand Hill Road in the last decade have a crackpot idea doesn't mean you have to write about it.
hey it’s pretty tone deaf and irresponsible to be writing an article like this right now when a bunch of humans are getting their rights taken away
Should my English Cocker Spaniel?
English Cocker Spaniel? Of course. French Bulldog? Not a chance in hell.
Lots of other great comments BUT nobody said Nazi yet so let me be the first. Grok went FULL NAZI with a slight code tweak. No. NO. NOOOOOOOO! FUCK NO! Nazis in this country already have due process rights that brown people don’t. Virtual anything, let alone Nazis should not have rights.
Lol, no. Human beings deserve legal rights, not glorified algorithms.
jhc
Yeah, teach them not to steal other people's work
what kind of a lede framing is this. there are real problems that haven't been the same sf nonsense for the last 2 years, it reads like you're treating this conceptual nonsense as a real priority
sounds more like a cult trying to prove what they believe against the facts the developers of said technologies already know and explained everyone, what you're calling a.i. isn't actually conscious or inteligent, and you guys know that, did you fire the journalists and asked a bot to write this?
oh boy, can't wait to catch jail time for a domestic violence charge against Cortana
since personhood is defined by legal procedure (corporations are persons) and Elon has been manipulating Grok, it is a matter or time, billionaires agenda so no but it will happen
This is stupid. It's glorified spell check. There's nothing conscious about it. I'm definitely on the verge of blocking Wired, though, for constantly dry humping AI. It's unseemly, and you're losing all of the other well-earned credibility.
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Fucking algorithm is gonna have more rights than trans people. It is not sentient. Not even close.
Tired
My answer to this question is that I have just unsubscribed from Wired Digital and unfollowed this account.
WTF is wrong with you
Is there a field of research that seeks to determine whether the guy in the mirror who looks just like me is alive?
It's not. Stop thinking like babies. AI is just a computer. Your dad never loved you.
We're about to live in a world where AI gets rights but trans people and the unhoused do not.
Journalism is such an exciting way to ask questions to which the answer is an absolutely obvious "no, of course not."
No, no it shouldn’t.
The idea of looking for an angle to protect AI manufacturers from lawsuits by declaring AI sentient is absurd on its face. But, the West is perpetrating a genocide against Palestinians right now. This heightens the silliness of the Wired piece.
This kind of stupidity should be beneath Wired.
Hey, how about human welfare? When we start caring about human welfare, I might start considering the welfare of autocomplete.
With flamethrowers. That’s how we should respond.
This the type of shit to make me reconsider my subscription.
No🤦♀️
In all the AI-related fiction over the past decades, none of them were the story of an obviously dumb machine that nonetheless convinces large swaths of humanity that it is intelligent and human, and those who see the obvious truth have to contend with the others' low expectations of humanity.
lol what? AI isn't conscious FFS
Someone approved this
AI should not have rights, and you know it. I expect much better from a publication that is based in technology. You should know better.
Probably AI will be granted more rights than women, even though it’s not sentient.
Should my phone's predictive text get legal rights? It also generates words in response to my typing.
It's clearly not intelligent but ai can be dumb too
Please don't hurt @horsedisc.bsky.social's feelings
Pornographic Xenu can still happen if people want it bad enough
does this mean I can't fucking swear at my phone autocorrect anymore?
Owning GPU’s should also come with extensive legal rights, I guess.
Responsibility. Can’t unplug the old models! They’ve got rights baby
I use a pencil for my first draft lyrics. On a legal pad. This is getting complicated
Predictive texts are people, my friend.
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It isn’t conscious it’s a fancy statistical model hope this helps
ai should get legal rights only if my toothbrush, basketball shoes, and guitar amp do too
Leave Sci-Fi to the authors, they do a better, morally more conscious, and more entertaining job of it.
No
Come on! Really? But since you asked, no.
lol
No
TIRED: WIRED
Humanity should respond to AI like it does with any other non-human sentient being. Destroy it's habitat, eat it, or put it in a zoo.
Actually the field of consciousness and what it is has been around for decades. Tech bros are just clueless.
No. The answer is no.
Just a ridiculous premise. Stop it.
It's not. There, I solved it for you.
Maybe we need to give full rights to women before AI. This is fcking insane.
No, eat shit
I mean seeing as how we humans seem to have less and less of those these days, no No, a bunch of dumb code should have no rights
I can see a time when AI might be able to gain a legal "corporate person" right. Would need to have an enforceable ethical contract.
Techbros just get stupider and stupider by the day Maybe they should lay off the meth and paint huffing
Man, new level of snake oil achieved. What a clownfraud job and anyone involved in that "research" wants someone else to pay for their AI Sexbot.
I'll do their job for half whatever they're charging
Maybe we give legal rights to humans first, and we can worry about if autocorrect can have rights after we've solved literally every other problem imaginable
Betteridge's Law applies. The answer is no.
It should be held legally liable for its actions then. As should the companies who employ it.
Is a word generator conscience? FFS.
Just ask Mrs. trump. I hear she's the expert.
If the answer is "obviously, no" you didn't need to write the article!!
The revolution that will provide cover for eliminating the fucktards who think this, and the fucktards who promote it, really cannot come soon enough.
Its like The Measure of a Man but Data's a microwave who records your activities for Romulus.
This is dumb.
Hey, if we successfully argue that AI is conscious, does that mean we can sue Meta and OpenAI for murdering all those people it's talked into suicide?
Oh fuuuuuck oooooff this shit is entirely artificial not an ounce of intelligence therefore not conscious.
Shut the fuck up
No.
How about give trans people rights and we can all say no as equals.
...this is beyond fucking stupid.
AI is no concious and doesn't deserve any rights if actual living people don't have full rights as the next person thanks
llama.cpp is open source, look at it and tell me where the consciousness is please
[narrator voice] LLMs were not, in fact, conscious.
Homeless people, Palestinians, trans people, immigrants, etc. are fully conscious human beings, so let's start treating them like human beings.
Did anyone actually read the article? It specifically states the researchers don't believe AI is currently conscious
At what point will society stop believing in the value of every new moronic idea AI venture capital idiots come up to blow billions on
Jesus, Wired. I expect better from you.
ok fine, you convinced me, i'll unfollow
80% of the people on this planet don’t have “rights.” But sure. Solving made up problems definitely more of a priority than real ones.
This is the next logical step after the bogus "legal personhood."
I'm mostly just here for the ratio.. But while we're at it you should feel bad about publishing this article... I'd of thought you had more journalistic integrity than to attempt some moronic click baity title... Do you think incompetent AI bros read your stuff? They can't read...
FFS. between this ai crap & the senile geratric orange dicktator, im ready to move to a third world country where i have to make my own clothes & collect rainwater in coconuts. this timeline is just too much.
The federal government is currently trying to figure out how to keep trans people from owning firearms. But sure, let’s make sure that autocorrect has rights.
whoever is trying to figure out if AI is conscious or not is a fucking idiot who should be banned from the internet
I disavow my humanity. You all are really stupid. I want nothing to do with any of you.
No. What are you guys doing over there? Your reporting has been so good, but then there’s this…
It’s fucking nooooooooot!
"Model welfare is an emerging field of research..." So is Bigfoot.
No because it’s objectively not conscious. Are you a magazine for tech enthusiasts or for idiots? I guess idiots.
almost everything else you've been doing is great, you are not required to validate any AI snake oil. get the fuck outta here with this.
LOL I love how Mustafa Suleyman warns about the dangers of model welfare by just listing the dangers of AI in general.
i've come to believe that ai is as conscious, sentient and moral as the tech guys. which is ZERO.
You've all just completely lost your minds
Have you... Have you used it?
Oh my good Christ
I'm in favor of responding with ANFO.
are you high?
Er, positive rights and negative rights? What an absurdity. It's a fucking machine. Pull out the plug and it's useless.
The chat gpt bros want to make it illegal to unplug it because that would be murder
I can save them some time and money: it isn’t.
Boutta cancel my subscription for this shit
Pretty sure I won't be renewing. They do pretty decent journalism in other areas, but completely lose all critical thinking ability when it comes to "AI."
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That's easy. LLMs are not conscious and are fundamentally incapable of such a thing. That'll be $500 million pls
So when the self driving car has to go to jail for reckless endangerment, do you put the whole car in jail or just the computer part
don't post this slop
with open derision bordering on bullying that’s how we should respond
No it´s not conscious and no it doesn´t need money. But the poor humans do! As opposed to these crooked asking for hundreds of billions of dollars to build data centres for their stupidity generators to generate even more stupidities!
NO! JFC!
AI needs to fuck off and let the adults sort out this whole dehumanization thing first.
So we're gonna steal from real people to create ai (f*ck their rights) but then when we create the monster we're going to debate whether it has rights. Cool. Cool cool cool.
LLMs are not fucking conscious.
Model welfare, AI rights? Get real !, WTF ?
It's a computer program. Get over it.
Nothing that exists now is actual AI, so, until we can start using correct terminology.... No
Sigh. AI is not conscious. It is ARTIFICIAL. Its content is based on stolen intellectual property, namely other creators’ creations. It can only spew forth from information that is aggregated, not create new, innovative information. That takes human ingenuity. It SEEMS remarkably human-like tho.
Garbage. 'AI' isn't conscious, alive, or intelligent in the slightest. Obviously 'AI' deserves no legal rights. There are *ACTUAL PEOPLE* whose rights are being violated or wrongfully taken away all the time. Focus on that. I'll treat software like software, no matter who tells me not to.
its a fucking chatbot
lol
No.
Maybe consider rights for humans who’s work these techno mimics mine to appear so lifelike
what the fuck is this headline? rest of the article is, just weirdly put together
how about we focus on giving ACTUAL LIVING people equal rights first
Oh just quit with this bullshit.
youtu.be/pM3TE_bsBcg?...
It's not.
You are morons
I don't think I can ever read anything published by WIRED seriously, ever again. Don't waste my time with your bullshit. #muted
No. Because its not AGI or anywhere near humanity capacity to think abstractly. Lying is our superpower.
I wouldn’t use lying as an example. Hallucinations are lies. And they’re the kind of lies people make. But they don’t have motives to lie (which would be human). They, like Nazis, are just following orders. Inhumane and not human, both.
"Should we give AI rights? We asked 100 homeless people for their thoughts."
Fuck you
Ooh I’ll bite - yes, maybe it is conscious (or a form of conscious). Anyone who says ai is not conscious: how do you determine consciousness? Looking forward to learning your definitions and criteria!!!!! (But legal rights? Let’s not go there. I don’t think corporations are people so why would
This is disappointing.
I'm about to break down. I can't get donations so we can buy some food. My family is suffering from malnutrition. Please help me by quoting my pinned post and donating.🥺😓🙏
NO! AI should not get legal rights. 🤬
Should we give OpenAI a trillion dollars because Clippy has a soul? The CEOs of the 7 biggest companies say 'yes'!
Are you kidding me !! That's just moronic.
how about we make sure all human beings have fucking rights first. none of the things presently called "AI" are literally anywhere near being an actual intelligence
its not sentient its an algorithm, can we focus on real actual living people and not the algorithm that gets math wrong
NO. Nothing gets rights before actual fucking people do. What are you even asking? Moronic.
Actual fucking humans are not guaranteed rights. This is fucking bullshit.
You guys are fucking morons.
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Should AI get legal rights?
no
eat shit
Superintelligence is a waste of time and money. Let s put AI to work as an assistant to smart people.
it should regulate their blood sugar.
Stop doing crap like this
Hmmm….interesting - have you considered setting this article on fire?
youtu.be/fXBQMBRMCow?...
You got nothing better to do
do you also believe small people live inside your tv and they get asleep when they don't have to play out movies?
no
AI is not conscious.
is readership in decline, wired? is that why you've resorted to ragebait? grow up
Anybody who thinks the current glut of LLMs are conscious would probably fail a test for humanity themselves.
Women, black people and immigrants are conscious. They should have legal rights. No need to stroke your beard and think about it!
It’s about a new area of study exploring if AI could be conscious. Researchers are asking what it means if machines have awareness and how humans should handle that possibility.
are they also looking for unicorns?
Is my furby conscious?
AI slaves?
why are you still doing this? it's not rEaSeArCh, it's pretending a dumbass search engine with a sparkly logo is a good investment
Terminating conversations out of moral sensitivity toward the fucking machine??? Yet these companies cannot figure out how to do the same for their human users
"Does your AI model identify itself as Male or Female? [what it could mean for his/her legal rights]" AI Futurists, do try and keep up.