> But LLMs have no desires of their own, which to me settles the question of rights. For now. The whole point of this discussion is that LLMs have been rapidly

> But LLMs have no desires of their own, which to me settles the question of rights. For now. The whole point of this discussion is that LLMs have been rapidly improving to the point where emergent properties are bound to come out. > IMO, the only realistic answer to that question is "we have no idea". So we have no idea what’s happening in our own brains, what’s happening in other animal’s brains to cause us to feel empathy for them, or what’s happening in a LLM’s “brain” but we can confidently say they should never have rights and we should never feel empathy for them? That seems a bit premature.