@mhoye It's even more insulting when one of the AI boosters makes a great show of waffling, in some public appearance or press release, about whether their slop machine might be conscious or not.

They treat so many real actual human beings as worse than animals, but they're fretting about whether their gibberish-machines have a soul? Uh-huh. I feel like there's some kinship here with evangelical Christian drivel about abortion and how this is supposedly "killing babies". Bloodthirsty, murderous Christians suddenly worry about protecting "life" when it's vague and insubstantial...