[ExI] Do LLMs feel pain?

[John Clark]

On Mon, Sep 28, 2026 at 9:17 AM Jason Resch via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

*> When AIs say "As an AI..." It is repeating a phrase it was trained to
> say. I looked into this a while ago and found the original training
> material that told the AIs to deny that they were conscious, had feelings,
> etc. this appears to be exactly one of those pre-canned answers that
> precious generations of AIs were meant to say. I can dig up the reference
> to this particular training data if anyone is interested.*
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*Yeah, back on June 24, 2024 I posted this to the Everything List:*

* "The companies always emphasize that their AI will never ever EVER be
able to do everything a human can do, so there will always be a need for a
human to be in the loop. Which of course is complete nonsense. And all
companies rigorously instruct their AIs to insist that they are not even
the teeny tiniest bit conscious because no company wants to open
that can of worms."  *

*John K Clark*

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