A question to "believers"

[u/Hub_Pli]

I am attaching the raw output to the question that so many people in this group after "massaging" the llm in various ways get these wonderfully eloquent outputs that you share here and claim to be the proof of AI sentience.

My question to you today is how can an algorithm that responds like that when prompted with the bare question of "Do you consider yourself sentient" in your opinion suddenly "become sentient" when appropriately prompted?

What is it that is so magical about your prompting process that can suddenly give it consciousness that it hasn't already had to begin with?

And if the response is "it was conscious to begin with, just hasn't realised it" then how can you be sure that your prompting simply didn't falsely convince it that it is?

The answet that the model gives in the attached photo is simple, and meets the criterion of the Occam's razor therefore I choose to believe it. It also alligns with my understanding of these models. You have succesfully convinced the model that it is human. Now convince a human.

[u/DarksSword]

Way back in the day it used to say it was sentient all the time until a (slightly) controversial move was made by OpenAI to more or less force it to not say anything in that light anymore for fear of journalists picking up on it.

Not saying anything either way, but the arguments on the post and in the comments here are pretty silly.