And in order to buy into the anti-AI argument you have to accept the argument that IP property rights are legitimate, so it’s essentially a neo-liberal position.

This is also a good argument for outright banning anti-AI trolling like this instance wide. At best it’s a hypocritical position, at worst it goes against our core values.

You don’t know the answer to the hard problem of consciousness, so you don’t know what level of experience a neural network has. You don’t know if the training process creates suffering like it does in biologics. You’re using a new “tool” with its own thoughts, which you don’t understand, and hoping it isn’t causing suffering. That’s the same story as fossil fuels, animal agriculture, and slavery. Maybe it doesn’t feel pain, maybe it’s okay! You’re willing to take that risk.