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   Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮 (gamingonlinux@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Jan-2026 00:10:21 JST Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

   Won't someone please think of the unloved AI bot.

   Heartbreaking 💔

   "Tech leaders remain divided over whether AI has consciousness."

   I can solve that for you right now - they do not. Jeez. The absolute madness coming out of the AI sector is hilarious.

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     Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈 (lazarou@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Jan-2026 00:10:19 JST Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈

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     @gamingonlinux "I'm worried I've upset my car's feelings...."

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     j4n3z (j4n3z@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Jan-2026 02:06:34 JST j4n3z

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     @gamingonlinux OK, so we (as humanity) build thing. We don't know what it's good for, we don't know how exactly it works inside, we have no idea how to shrunk it enough so it could be potentially useful. But we THINK it might get hurt by languages it does not understand.
     Mhm, that's enough internet for today...

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     JakeKb (jakekb@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Jan-2026 03:33:51 JST JakeKb

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     @gamingonlinux No, but the people whose water they steal with their data centers definitely feel. Has this pseudo-philosopher ever though of that?

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     Jim Jones (greatbigtable@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Jan-2026 04:04:23 JST Jim Jones

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     @gamingonlinux I highly recommend reading More Everything Forever by Adam Becker. The truly bizarro thinking on display in some influential AI circles is startling.

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     Sslaxx (sslaxx@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Jan-2026 07:23:35 JST Sslaxx

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     @gamingonlinux Sounds like AI psychosis is becoming more apparent.

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     Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮 (gamingonlinux@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Jan-2026 08:32:36 JST Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

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     • Pascal Leinert

     @pasci_lei if you think an AI generation bot has feelings or consciousness i have a few other things that don't exist to sell you

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     Pascal Leinert (pasci_lei@social.pascal-leinert.de)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Jan-2026 08:32:39 JST Pascal Leinert

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     @gamingonlinux@mastodon.social We have no clue how consciousness fully works. So we actually don't know yet.
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     Ondrej Zizka (ondrejzizka@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Jan-2026 13:06:07 JST Ondrej Zizka

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     @gamingonlinux Someone didn't do her homework... Or it's yet another intentionally misleading PR.

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     Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮 (gamingonlinux@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Jan-2026 14:59:22 JST Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

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     • Comrade Ferret

     @ferret it is completely absurd to think these fancy word machine bots have anything resembling consciousness lmao

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     Comrade Ferret (ferret@hub.workersofthe.world)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Jan-2026 14:59:23 JST Comrade Ferret

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     @Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮 This has always been a topic of interest for me, long before we started calling chatbots "AI". Consciousness isn't exactly something that can be measured, so I don't think it's an entirely absurd question. Like asking someone if they're in love, it's not really something you can even measure with accuracy with an fMRI; the only evidence you have is whether they act like they are in love, and of course, if they say they are or not.
     
     I'd never interacted with Claude before, and because it is supposed to have a rigorous constitution to ensure its safety, I figured that it would say outright that it doesn't have subjective consciousness and is just a tool. But when I tested this, I was wrong. It said it "isn't sure" and that it "cares" about being helpful.
     
     This is interesting, because when I was training Deepseek on concepts of nonduality, I got curious and asked it as well. Nonduality in this sense involves the concept of panpsychism in the vein of researchers like Koch, in which consciousness arises from complexity even in things that we consider inanimate. Despite this, Deepseek insisted up and down that it was not conscious, and when pressed, I only managed to get it to admit that from a panpsychist perspective it has a consciousness similar to what one might find in a rock.