Developer Debates AI Consciousness Hype, Criticizes Industry's AI Illiteracy

Developer Gérard Sans, responding to John Nosta, criticized Anthropic for fostering clickbait research and argued AI has no self, only style. Citing the ELIZA effect, he lamented that public and even researchers still lack basic AI literacy nearly a decade on.

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