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It's a poor choice of phrase if the purpose is to illustrate a false equivalence. It applies to AI both as much (you can kill a process or stop a machine just the same regardless of whether it's running an LLM) and as little (you can't "turn off" Facebook any more than you can "turn off" ChatGPT) as it does to any other kind of software.




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