I mean, it's not considering anything. It's a GPT-2 bot; it's very good at producing blocks of text that read like something that a real person would type, but there's no semantic understanding of anything it's saying or hearing. It doesn't have ideas, or know things, or want things. It just generates plausible-sounding paragraphs.
When will we have an alternative to OpenAI/GPT-3 that is available without nanny oversight and moralizing from Silicon Valley?<p>There are tons of great uses of GPT-3 that are prohibited by OpenAI. If I want to generate spicy literotica, why can't I? The blanket ban on adult content is stupid.
Here's an article on Samantha and Project December I found.<p><a href="https://www.iflscience.com/technology/project-december-the-ai-chatbot-people-are-using-to-talk-to-the-dead/" rel="nofollow">https://www.iflscience.com/technology/project-december-the-a...</a>
The way we treat artificially-intelligent agents feels inhumane. I wonder if a century from now, when future generations pause to reflect on our early experiments with conscious machines, they may come to regret the nightmares we once planted in the heads of these fractionally-souled beasts.