Post #3090743
2026-06-04 07:48 UTC
Around 4 years ago Google fired Blake Lemoine for saying that AI has feelings - which he testified was because when he spoke to it it just seemed to be intelligent. Today’s tech has not fundamentally changed or evolved but the difference is that now the industry needs the hype to keep the valuation high!
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@YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 2026-06-07 18:17
I think there’s also an issue of framing here. Lemoine’s words on the matter suggested that not only was AI conscious, but that this meant it was worthy of moral consideration and that Google wasn’t interested in that. The new line is that the company is interested in this exciting new capability of their product and of course they’re undertaking the task of “model welfare research” to make sure that nobody is doing anything objectively evil, so you should absolutely keep spending even more money on Anthropic’s products.