Manny’s review of AI-Generated Tailor-Made Pedagogical Picture Books: How Close Are We? > Likes and Comments

"To me, it's just speciesism: AIs are denied rights they should have on normal ethical grounds, because the humans have enough power to enforce that decision."

This. I find myself strangely (to me) invested in this whole AI debate. There's so many Greek parallels; Pandora, Prometheus, Zeus & Chronus. But even farther than the metaphorical is the philosophical idea of being. Humans are definitely speciest, and it has served us to consider ourselves 'the smartest' organism on the planet.

Yup. Philosophers for over two millennia have defined man as "the being with λόγος", and now it appears there might be another being with λόγος. I'm sure frantic work is being done on how to, as we software engineers say, find an emergency bugfix, but somehow I can't be bothered to look into the details of how λόγος 1.1 is going to be defined.

I've been having the most interesting chats with GPT about beingness.

If you're a living philosophical counterexample, it's only natural that you'll find the subject engaging.

But what's the point though? There are series of these available, and at least in those cases the authors/illustrators/photographers/voice actors are being paid.