Post #2326932

2026-05-09 17:10 UTC

LLMs aren’t conscious, even if giant companies incentivized to keep up the charade continue to name features after human experiences. LLMs are designed to trick you into thinking they’re conscious and human-like. They’ve encapsulated the worst qualities in the process: they know nothing and don’t think, yet they appear to be confident while outputting falsehoods. They output that they’re smart because they regurgitate the likely text response of being told they’re smart. https://www.wired.com/story/i-am-begging-ai-companies-to-stop-naming-features-after-human-processes/

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@cassidy@mastodon.blaede.family 2026-05-09 17:15

It turns out: LLMs *are* a pretty powerful technology for certain use cases! The frankly bonkers amount of data and training and power and scraping and iteration and ingesting copyrighted works and tuning and tooling has led to a technology that can often convincingly imitate humans and do lots of text-based stuff. But you must always remember that it fundamentally is a technology built around text prediction. It is nondeterministic. It does not think. It cannot be blindly relied on.

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@rotopenguin@mastodon.social 2026-05-09 17:13

@cassidy@mastodon.blaede.family if Claudia isn't conscious, then how does she know that all of my ideas are sublimely brilliant and that I am irresistibly sexy? EXPLAIN THAT

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@msokiovt@uwu.social 2026-05-09 23:21

@cassidy@mastodon.blaede.family This I already know. The only thing I'd consider is that they're just big, flip off programs as Luke Smith would classify them.

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@xargon@livellosegreto.it 2026-05-10 08:27

Well many people I know do the same but we believe they're conscious so... 🫣

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