Cory Doctorow

These fears (or hopes) of a nascent superintelligence that will spontaneously arise if we just give enough computing power and training data to large language models are absurd on their face.

a chatbot is definitely more like a corporation than it is like a watershed. [...] giving rights to chatbots means taking away rights from nature

Throwing more words and GPUs into the word-guessing program won't make it sentient. [...] one of our mares gives birth to a locomotive.