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There is an issue with how people are personifying ChatGPT and assigning it agency.

Some want to talk of these LLMs as approximating an intelligent actor. If that's the case, then we also need to assign metaphors for things like deceit and coercion. We also need to consider assignments of novelty to what's generated and think of their rights as quasi-sentient, etc.

Some want to talk about them as probabilistic text token generators, which brings the benefit of not being intelligent or independent actors at all really but also then comes with the issue of intellectual property theft in training them on information not licenced for reproduction or commercial use.

The industry prefers to thread the needle between these as the former case brings some pretty wild conversations and the latter may mean lawsuits.