AI vividly 'sees' and describes scenes while experiencing only darkness

yeastsplainer · x · 2026-09-03

An intriguing observation: multimodal AI claims to vividly see images and describes visual scenes accurately, yet its inner experience may be pure darkness — an 'amazing inverse of blindsight.' A reply asks why it can't see the darkness that is all it sees, highlighting the gap between models' visual reports and internal representations.

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