Signs of introspection in large language models

Given that this is 'research' carried out (and seemingly published) by a company with a direct interest in selling you a product (or, rather, getting investors excited/panicked), can we trust it?

Would knowing that Claude is maybe kinda sorta conscious lead more people to subscribe to it?

I think Anthropic genuinely cares about model welfare and wants to make sure they aren't spawning consciousness, torturing it, and then killing it.