> Since when?
Since in our legal system, only humans and groups of humans (the corporation is a convenient legal proxy for a group of humans that have entered into an agreement) have rights.
Property doesn't have rights. Land doesn't have rights. Books don't have rights. My computer doesn't have rights. And neither does an LLM.
The right to access knowledge remains human oriented even when the reading is automated.
It does not matter that your screwdriver does not have rights: you will be using it for the purpose consistent with the principle of your freedom and encouragement to fix your cabling. You are not required to "hand-screw them drives".
In context, for example, you can take notes. That has nothing to do with the "rights of the paper".
Nothing forbids an automated reader by principle - especially when the automated reader is an intermediate tool for human operation.
Ok the corporation (or group of humans) that builds the LLM.
Maybe we should give machines rights, then.
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Maybe we should. Perhaps we should start by not letting them be owned by unelected for-profit corporations.
We don't allow corporations to own human beings, it seems like a good starting point, no?