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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. blackqueeriroh ◴[] No.45036683[source]
Because humans like to believe they are the most intelligent thing on the planet and would be very uninterested in something that seemed smarter than them if it didn’t act like them,