Researcher jokes: charge the paper's authors with murder over digital beings killed in training
gregd_nlp · x · 2026-10-23
NLP researcher nsaphra posted dark humor: the average human lifespan is just four thousand weeks and every day is precious—"therefore I request that the SAC charge the authors of this paper with murder," riffing on the digital beings "birthed and killed" to generate a paper. Greg Durnford piled on: not to mention how many digital beings they went through. A classic bit of AI-circle banter touching the ethics-of-training philosophical debate in jest.
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