Humans don't exactly have the greatest track record of granting other humans rights. I don't presume they'll get it any better with AI.
What I expect to happen is whoever has the most influence and power will get what they want and we'll end up raising a generation with the implicit understanding of "that's just how things are," natural order, truth, reality, and all that jazz.
The only thing that ever changes outcomes is if the contradiction status quo is incapable of being managed.
I can’t argue for or against whether LLMs should have rights or not… I can only point out the hypocrisy of claiming LLMs are “like human” enough and independent enough that their operators-become-slaveowners cannot be held to account on any copyright matters, but also claiming that LLMs are not like human at all lest someone demans them to have rights and nukes the industry.
What I expect to happen is whoever has the most influence and power will get what they want and we'll end up raising a generation with the implicit understanding of "that's just how things are," natural order, truth, reality, and all that jazz.
The only thing that ever changes outcomes is if the contradiction status quo is incapable of being managed.