On 2026-05-29 20:20, [email protected] wrote:
It's too simple to say "AI has no intent" just because it has no
*feelings*. Humans are motivated by feelings to do anything. There's no
evidence that LLMs have feelings. But in every other respect they are
motivated, as in they do have goals (programmed to get points measured
in some way) *and* take actions to achieve those goals. We can see that
as intention without imagining that they have any internal conscious
experience or feelings. To the extent that it's merely extremely
complicated bunch of process applied to inputs, that much is true about
humans as well, so that isn't a distinction worth emphasizing.
The real question here is whether we grant LLMs some sort of legal
status as entities, and that's an extemely dangerous direction which we
should resist. It's already been a horrific, destabilizing,
life-threatening catastrophe to grant special legal status to
corporations! We need to return to having legal status only for living
things (indeed extending to many more species than humans though).
Virus has intention too. Should we grant it a legal status?
LLM is just that, bunch of numbers in data recorded somewhere on some
disks. It is organized data without any life in itself. Life created it,
so only life can have intention, not the product of life.
You are in illusion that any LLM or software has intention.
It was created with specific intentions, yet those came from living
being named human. That is quite different.
Is not good living in the illusion that some program (which had to be
run by human) and some data, has intentions...
--
Jean Louis
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