Companies name their LLMs Claude or whatever because they want you to think of them as things with consciousness. They do not have consciousness. They are sophisticated, energy-gobbling, programs. They’re tools.
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These tools can mimic (to some extent, with many faults) the outputs of human consciousness: language, images, etc. But they do not have the actual consciousness that created those things. They do this by stealing the work of conscious beings and pastiching it.
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I’m not saying these tools don’t have legitimate uses. Just like using Timesmachine or newspapers dot com is easier than a microfiche. But we should be careful to describe them accurately.
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