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"It’s fortunate that LLMs are not conscious," Ted Chiang writes, "or else the actions of the big AI firms would be even more scandalous than they already are." | Collector
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"It’s fortunate that LLMs are not conscious," Ted Chiang writes, "or else the actions of the big AI firms would be even more scandalous than they already are."

"It’s fortunate that LLMs are not conscious," Ted Chiang writes, "or else the actions of the big AI firms would be even more scandalous than they already are."

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