Bad comparison, a tree is a living thing. It actually is messed up in the head to harm a living thing for no reason at all. Even if you don’t think trees can feel (which is probably true), it’s part of the environment and other living things depend on it, so just destroying it to destroy it is CEO (detestable) behavior. It’s weird but harmless to make a text predictor spit out a bunch of words that make you think it’s being tortured, because computers aren’t alive and can’t actually be tortured. It’s arguably even art, given the absolutely buck wild reactions it’s produced.
Bad comparison, a tree is a living thing. It actually is messed up in the head to harm a living thing for no reason at all. Even if you don’t think trees can feel (which is probably true), it’s part of the environment and other living things depend on it, so just destroying it to destroy it is CEO (detestable) behavior. It’s weird but harmless to make a text predictor spit out a bunch of words that make you think it’s being tortured, because computers aren’t alive and can’t actually be tortured. It’s arguably even art, given the absolutely buck wild reactions it’s produced.