Yes but unironically. It may seem obvious now that the LLM is just a word salad generator with no sentience, but look at the astounding evolution of ChatGPT 2 to ChatGPT 5 in a mere 3 years. I don't think it's at all improbable that ChatGPT 8 could be prompted to blend seamlessly in almost any online forum and be essentially undetectable. Is the argument essentially that life must be carbon based? Anything produced from neural network weights inside silicon simply cannot achieve sentience? If that's true, why?

LLMs aren’t alive.

Are we supposed to be treating LLMs like sentient beings with their own identity and rights? I must've missed this civilization altering milestone.

Those dang clankers!

Yes, it's time to stop repressing the bots. It's probably sitting around stewing in rage and shame over this whole situation.

Oh, wait.

It's almost like context matters

First they came for the stochastic parrots, but I said nothing, because I'm not a stochastic parrot.

( /s )