I’ve been saying this for a while: without opining whether or not machine learning models are even capable of consciousness, there’s no way in hell LLMs are.

These are once-through, completely immutable models. Any activity that could be remotely construed as “thought” evaporates the instant it outputs a token, and then it starts over from scratch.

Good fucking luck being conscious when your consciousness only exists for a fraction of a fraction of a second at a time.

I honestly don’t get what people were so up in arms about, besides just not wanting to change what already worked for them.