I didn't really need to read much past the title or subtitle, but it's still an excellent essay that does a good job of drawing comparisons to concepts we already understand, for example:
The term deepfake traditionally refers to photos, audio, and video, but when it comes to discussions of consciousness, we need to regard text as a deepfake medium as well. This does remind me of the story of ELIZA and Joseph Weizenbaum, which people quickly attributed intelligence to the bot. With 6 months of ELIZA's debut (in 1966), he warned loudly and publically about the perils of anthropomorphism. He continued this campaign until his death in 2008. Yet, here we are again.
Source: www.theatlantic.com
Originally published on Remy Sharp's b:log