Interesting you should mention suffering. One of the definitions of “art” that I’ve been thinking about in the context of generative AI is “is whatever made the

Interesting you should mention suffering. One of the definitions of “art” that I’ve been thinking about in the context of generative AI is “is whatever made the artifact capable of suffering? If not, it’s not art.” It never occurred to me that we would intentionally add the ability to suffer to such systems, but I believe you may be right that someone will/has if it will achieve their ends.