An LLM will claim whatever you tell it to claim. (In fact this Hacker News comment is also conscious.) A dog won’t even claim to be a good boy.

My dog wags his tail hard when I ask "hoosagoodboi?". Pretty definitive I'd say.

I'm fairly sure he'd have the same response if you asked them "who's a good lion" in the same tone of voice.

*I tried hard to find an animal they wouldn't know. My initial thought of cat was more likely to fail.

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This isn't really as true anymore.

Last week gemini argued with me about an auxiliary electrical generator install method and it turned out to be right, even though I pushed back hard on it being incorrect. First time that has ever happened.