Gary Marcus clarifies: the paper's author does not claim LLMs feel pain
GaryMarcus · x · 2026-09-20
Gary Marcus clarifies that the author himself, Cameron Berg, has told him the paper does not claim LLMs feel pain — that's a reading many people projected onto it. Marcus says he will explain where and why those interpretations went wrong.
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