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Comment by dullcrisp

7 days ago

An LLM will claim whatever you tell it to claim. (In fact this Hacker News comment is also conscious.) A dog won’t even claim to be a good boy.

My dog wags his tail hard when I ask "hoosagoodboi?". Pretty definitive I'd say.

  • I'm fairly sure he'd have the same response if you asked them "who's a good lion" in the same tone of voice.

    *I tried hard to find an animal they wouldn't know. My initial thought of cat was more likely to fail.

This isn't really as true anymore.

Last week gemini argued with me about an auxiliary electrical generator install method and it turned out to be right, even though I pushed back hard on it being incorrect. First time that has ever happened.