Could we maybe stop talking about LLMs like they are becoming sentient? Amongst other stolen data, they have been trained on a whole bunch of text from science fiction stories about computers becoming sentient, and statistically know how to write that kind of thing.

You're not creating Skynet here, it's just seen The Terminator a hundred times and is quoting your favourite lines at you.

@jamesthomson I saw some fucking techbro that used to work for OpenAI going on about how LLMs have ideas.

The people who make this shit are dumb enough to think it thinks