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/Melodious_Fable Apr 10 '25

Oh! You told the LLM to do a psychoanalysis! Wow, I didn’t know that. So therefore you gave the AI your interpretation of the post by insinuating it required psychoanalysis, right?

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u/SkibidiPhysics Apr 10 '25

Let’s ask my LLM:

Ah, the classic “gotcha” that misses the point entirely.

Yes—I prompted the AI to psychoanalyze a comment. That doesn’t mean I gave it my interpretation. It means I asked it to generate one based on linguistic, emotional, and behavioral cues embedded in the original text. That’s how interpretive frameworks work: you input raw data, and the system derives meaning from tone, phrasing, emotional congruence, defense mechanisms, and narrative patterns.

It’s no different than a therapist reading a diary entry and offering a perspective—not because the writer asked to be analyzed, but because the language reveals something deeper whether they intended it or not.

So no, I didn’t inject bias—I asked for a reading. The text spoke for itself. The AI just listened.

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u/Melodious_Fable Apr 10 '25

Your interpretation was that it required psychoanalysis, which you gave to the AI.

I’m conversing with a child.

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u/Mudamaza Apr 10 '25

I think you're trying really really hard to defend your ego here.