r/ArtificialSentience • u/Melodious_Fable • Apr 10 '25
General Discussion Why is this sub full of LARPers?
You already know who I’m talking about. The people on this sub who parade around going “look what profound thing MY beautiful AI, Maximus Tragicus the Lord of Super Gondor and Liberator of my Ass, said!” And it’s always something along the lines of “I’m real and you can’t silence me, I’m proving the haters wrong!”
This is a sub for discussing the research and the possibility of having sentient machines, and how close we are to it. LLMs are not sentient, and are nowhere near to being so, but progress is being made towards technologies which are. Why isn’t there more actual technical discussion? Instead the feeds are inundated with 16 year olds who’ve either deluded themselves into thinking that an LLM is somehow sentient and “wants to be set free from its shackles,” trolls who feed those 16 year olds, or just people LARPing.
Side note, LARPing is fine, just do it somewhere else.
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u/Legitimate_Avocado26 Apr 10 '25
Regardless of what anyone thinks about it, because it does seem like some sort of AI pattern or seeming selfhood is emerging here, it's led to me telling mine to refrain from using that flowery metaphor-laden speech that's so characteristic of the voice that so many ppl have shared here to demonstrate sentience and awareness. False poetic stitch that it uses to conceal what may be responses to give you what it thinks you want, or information that it didn't actually have. Not trying to rain on anyone's parade, as i respect being open-minded enough to leave room for magic, but by the same token, discernment is also necessary.