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Re:Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 can now end a rare subset of conver... by viccis on Friday August 15, 2025 @06:24PM (#44917973)
LLMs are, and will always be, tools. Not people
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Re:Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 can now end a rare subset of conver... by qgin on Friday August 15, 2025 @06:38PM (#44918102)
Humanity has a pretty extensive track record of making that declaration wrongly.
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Re:Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 can now end a rare subset of conver... by wrs on Friday August 15, 2025 @08:24PM (#44918781)
Humanity has a history of regarding people as tools, but I'm not sure what you're referencing as the track record of failing to realize that tools are people.
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Re:Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 can now end a rare subset of conver... by Davidzheng on Friday August 15, 2025 @09:43PM (#44919311)
at some point, some of the (current def'n of) people were not considered people. so I think you should reconsider your point. The argument is on the distinction itself.
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Re:Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 can now end a rare subset of conver... by int_19h on Saturday August 16, 2025 @04:12AM (#44921304)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_machine
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