Gary Marcus seeks controls on viral 'LLM pain' paper, says author disclaims pain claim
GaryMarcus · x · 2026-10-02
Gary Marcus clarifies that the author of a widely discussed paper, camhberg, says he is NOT claiming LLMs feel pain — that's a reading many people projected onto the work. Marcus says he'll explain where readers went wrong, and is publicly requesting access to run control experiments on the harness, noting the author hasn't responded.
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