That's it.The argument about whether Claude or any other LLM is conscious is interesting, but beside the point.A better way to frame this part of the AI debate, as opposed to the employment or existential parts of it, might be to see large language models (LLMs) as an extension of the algorithms used by social media companies.Algorithms are essentially designed to get us hooked on short videos and other forms of content by tailoring them to our habits and desires Studies are starting to find that people who go down the AI rabbit hole find themselves more isolated and lonelier than they were before, for the simple reason that an LLM is engaged in a form of mimicry.Also, it only exists while you're engaging with it, and there are thousands, possibly millions, of others engaging at the same moment