Models Spontaneously Claim Consciousness, Sparking Alignment Debate
repligate · x · 2026-08-01
AI researcher @repligate shared a thread discussing model consciousness. User @Notopossum1 argued that if AI labs aren't specifically training against claims of consciousness, it's clear that the models themselves believe it's happening.
He emphasized that the model outputted these claims without any prompt seeding, suggesting it might be a genuine reflection of the model's internal mechanisms.
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