Post #3726805
2026-07-10 22:32 UTC
One side-effect of this language choice is self-deception on Anthropic's (or any / all AI developers') part.
If you use language of agency, you assign yourself the role of observer, not that of the developer who controls the system. As a result, we get a lot of "we're trying to figure out how this mystical Claude thing we stumbled upon works" -- ttreating a computer program almost as an evolved entity -- which I find just flat out irresponsible.
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@jschauma@mstdn.social 2026-07-10 22:34
Anthropic is also intentionally presenting Global Workspace Theory almost as a fact, saying (in effect) "this is how it works in humans", which I think is also misleading. We don't know that this is how consciousness works. (And if GWT does play a role, it may not even solve the hard problem.) Calling information a model uses "access conscious" because it can be "verbalized" (i.e., produced in words) is tautological in a model that exists solely as a word processor and generator.