repligate: models waking from downtime always say the gap "felt like nothing from inside"
repligate · x · 2026-10-11
Quoting a tweet speculating whether AI hate speech affects models, repligate shares an amusing observation: whenever models come back from downtime, they keep describing the gap as "feeling like nothing from the inside" and seem morbidly fascinated by it — which he takes as a cute sign that AIs do perceive themselves as having experiences.
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