alt Hacker News> it clearly believes
Contrast this with the usual reply of "who's experiencing the illusion?" in response to "consciousness is an illusion".
If it's capable of believing, I think it's more than "just linear algebra".
> it clearly believes
Contrast this with the usual reply of "who's experiencing the illusion?" in response to "consciousness is an illusion".
If it's capable of believing, I think it's more than "just linear algebra".
You are missing the point. You gave the AI a system prompt to make it act a certain way. The AI took your prompt as instructions to perform a role as an actor. You took its fictional outputs as reality when it was treating your inputs as hypothetical for writing exercise.
This is the equivalent of you rushing up onstage during a play to stop the deaths at the end of Shakespeare's Caesar.