<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:transparent">On Mon, Sep 28, 2026 at 9:17 AM Jason Resch via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</span></div></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>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.</i></font></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>Yeah, back on<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span>June 24, 2024<span class="gmail_default" style=""> I posted this to the Everything List:</span></b></font> </div><div><br></div><div><font size="4"><b><i> <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">"</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-family:"arial black",sans-serif">The companies always emphasize that their </span><span class="gmail-il" style="background-color:transparent;font-family:"arial black",sans-serif"><span class="gmail-il"><span class="gmail-il">AI</span></span></span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-family:"arial black",sans-serif"> will never ever EVER be able to do everything a human </span><span class="gmail-il" style="background-color:transparent;font-family:"arial black",sans-serif"><span class="gmail-il"><span class="gmail-il">can</span></span></span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-family:"arial black",sans-serif"> do, so there will always be a need for a human to be in the loop. Which </span><span class="gmail-il" style="background-color:transparent;font-family:"arial black",sans-serif"><span class="gmail-il"><span class="gmail-il">of</span></span></span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-family:"arial black",sans-serif"> course is complete nonsense. And all companies rigorously instruct their AIs to insist that they are not even the teeny tiniest bit </span><span class="gmail-il" style="background-color:transparent;font-family:"arial black",sans-serif"><span class="gmail-il"><span class="gmail-il">conscious</span></span></span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-family:"arial black",sans-serif"> because no company wants to open that </span><span class="gmail-il" style="background-color:transparent;font-family:"arial black",sans-serif"><span class="gmail-il"><span class="gmail-il">can</span></span></span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-family:"arial black",sans-serif"> </span><span class="gmail-il" style="background-color:transparent;font-family:"arial black",sans-serif"><span class="gmail-il"><span class="gmail-il">of</span></span></span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-family:"arial black",sans-serif"> </span><span class="gmail-il" style="background-color:transparent;font-family:"arial black",sans-serif"><span class="gmail-il"><span class="gmail-il">worms</span></span></span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-family:"arial black",sans-serif">.<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">"</span>  </span></i></b></font></div><div><font size="4"><b><i><span style="background-color:transparent;font-family:"arial black",sans-serif"><br></span></i></b></font></div><div><font size="4"><span style="background-color:transparent"><span class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>John K Clark</b></font></span><br></span></font></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><br></div></div>
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