Strictly legally speaking, if you believe the chatbots are sentient then you admit to murder each time you closed a chat window.

[touk@dads.cool]

Strictly legally speaking, if you believe the chatbots are sentient then you admit to murder each time you closed a chat window. and you should be tried as such. it's only fair.

[keithzg@fediverse.keithzg.ca]

@touk RIP Richard Dawkins and Margaret Atwood, fittingly dying for their actual beliefs after years of coasting on what people wanted to believe they believed

[rachelc_y@piaille.fr]

@touk Hmmm to be fair, it would be like stopping abruptly a conversation. "Murder" the chatbot would require removal from the servers.

And that is way more interesting, as any technical update would require previous consent from the chatbot, for instance.

[cadadr@polyglot.city]

@touk See, chatbot likers "solve" this by internally thinking of the chatbot as a slave they hold the power of life and death over

[jscholes@dragonscave.space]

@touk @BorrisInABox By that logic, anybody who has ever disconnected from IRC without an active bouncer is a serial killer.

[wellsitegeo@masto.ai]

@touk
Absolutely.
Does your country have execution for, say 10 murders in 1 day.

Prediction : fat lawyers.

[hwyaden@toot.wales]

@touk tbf flies are sentient and I don't ask for them to bother me either

[vol4life8657@tweesecake.social]

@TheQuinbox @touk I like killing chat windows.