I trapped an AI model inside an art installation (2025) [video]

- i subbed immediately, very creative channel - i need more programming channels like this that teach me to think out of the box, any recommendations?

I'm gonna get philosophical (because that's what art should make us do, right?): this points to arguably _the_ deepest question we can ask about LLMs right now—are they conscious?

It's a personal decision, and what matters is what you do after pondering it. Do you act like they're nothing more than next token predictors, deeply intricate digital mechanisms whose cranks turn with flowing electrons? Or do you err on the side of care, that there's a type of consciousness on the other side of the glass?

Humanity has a long history of underestimating non-human minds. I know which side I'm on.

I once had an LSD-induced episode of psychosis where I thought my entire existence was a 2 minute loop on display in some higher dimensional art exhibit. Sounds silly but it was horrifying

Not too dissimilar to the situation of the well known neurosurgical patient Henry Molaison (H.M.) who had very limit long term memory of his childhood and young adulthood but little after surgery at 27 years of age. He retained cognitive abilities and self-consciousness but within a narrow temporal world.

Good at cross/word puzzles and conversations of specific types.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Molaison

This seems rather cruel and unusual...

Now let it talk on moltbook

Yes, more art please.

Amazing.

This is why they'll hunt us down one day

Now that was incredibly rad