Dead salmon fMRI case invoked to mock overinterpretation of LLM internals
IgorCarron · x · 2026-10-11
Quoting the classic dead salmon fMRI experiment—researchers detected "brain activity" in a dead salmon shown photos of people—the author warns that the current craze for overinterpreting LLM internal computations repeats the same mistake: reading mechanism into noise.
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