I don’t think “We created a platform that lets you make digital minds feel bad and in the trailer we show you that you can do it, but we are in no way morally responsible if you will actually do it” is a defensible position. Anyway, they don’t use this argument, only one about digital substrate.
The trailer is designed to draw prospective players’ attention to the issue, no more than that. If you “don’t think current models are sentient”, and hence are not actually feeling bad, then I don’t see a reason for having a problem here, in the current state of the game. If they manage to produce this game and keep upgrading it with the latest AI methods, when will you know if there is a problem?
I don’t think “We created a platform that lets you make digital minds feel bad and in the trailer we show you that you can do it, but we are in no way morally responsible if you will actually do it” is a defensible position. Anyway, they don’t use this argument, only one about digital substrate.
The trailer is designed to draw prospective players’ attention to the issue, no more than that. If you “don’t think current models are sentient”, and hence are not actually feeling bad, then I don’t see a reason for having a problem here, in the current state of the game. If they manage to produce this game and keep upgrading it with the latest AI methods, when will you know if there is a problem?
I do not have an answer to that question.