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nis0s ◴[] No.45032298[source]
Why did developers spread the idea of AI consciousness for LLMs in the first place? The usefulness and capability of an LLM is orthogonal to its capacity to develop consciousness.

I think people would use LLMs with more detachment if they didn’t believe there was something like a person in them, but they would still become reliant on them, regardless, like people did on calculators for math.

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1. vizzier ◴[] No.45032597[source]
The easy answer to this is the same reason Teslas have "Full Self Driving" or "Auto-Pilot".

It was easy to trick ourselves and others into powerful marketing because it felt so good to have something reliably pass the Turing test.