Thinking LMs are sentient is the flip side of thinking nonhuman animals aren't. We're so attuned to language as a signal for sentience that we can't conceive of unpairing sentience and language capabilities. So we think LMs are people, but tool-using crows and octopuses are meat.
@dieworkwear@mayaaaaahh@cabochon_nazar Could you please clarify what you mean by commodity in this context? I feel l'm missing something and it sounds interesting!