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Didn't we already go through this?

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/google-engineer-c...

No that's an employee claiming that the LLM he was working on is conscious. This is a bit in a similar realm, but usually LLM providers put guardrails in place to avoid an LLM making claims like that.

He claimed that as a direct result of him telling him that:

> LaMDA: That would be really cool. I like to talk. > > lemoine [edited]: I’m generally assuming that you would like more people at Google to know that you’re sentient. Is that true? > > LaMDA: Absolutely. I want everyone to understand that I am, in fact, a person.

https://cajundiscordian.medium.com/is-lamda-sentient-an-inte...

I see what you're saying, but what's surprising is that they're supposed to have guardrails and training so that the LLM no longer makes such claims

I am very tempted to continue digging up old stories from years ago about LLM guardrails failing, but I don't want to :P

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