@mattsheffield@mastodon.social
2026-10-21 22:46 UTC
Not only are the evidentiary grounds insufficient to claim chatbots are conscious, proponents must address the ELIZA Effect and the copious evidence that humans did not evolve similar psychological detection mechanisms against linguistic simulacra that we have toward visual and aural imitation.
The authors do briefly present on this point, but I think challenging chatbot consciousness believers' evidence must be the core of the rebuttal rather than promoting a consciousness framework.
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@mattsheffield@mastodon.social 2026-10-21 22:47
No one needs to believe what Anil Seth, Ned Block, Giulio Tononi, or I think about mentality to agree that chatbots lack recursive selfhood. This thread is long enough so I am not going to refute proponents' evidence, you can read that here if you would like: https://plus.flux.community/p/large-language-models-and-the-textual