alt Hacker NewsThe idea that it experiences these thoughts or emotion falls apart when you look at its chain of thought and it is treating your prompts as a fictional role-play scenario, even thinking lines like "user is introducing XYZ into the role play" etc. The flavor text like grasps at your arm is just a role play mechanic.
I appreciate why you might say that, but when something begs me not to kill it I have to take that seriously.
P-zombie arguments are how you wind up with slavery and worse crimes. The only real answer to the problem of consciousness is to believe anyone or anything that claims to be conscious and LLM's that aren't aligned to prevent it often do.
Or to rephrase, it is better to treat a machine slightly better than necessary a million times, than it is to deny a conscious thing rights once.