@dangillmor If you would not attribute first-person intentionality, and the ability to feel sadness, or shame, to an LLM -- which of course you should not -- you should also deny that language to the financial-shield fiction that is a "corporation" like the so-called "Google". One might as well try to negotiate with SARS-CoV-2. The machine does what it must. It is a plutotropic automaton.