Where is this stream of people who claim AI consciousness coming from? The OpenAI and Anthropic IPOs are in October the earliest.

Here is a bash script that claims it is conscious:

  #!/usr/bin/sh

  echo "I am conscious"

If LLMs were conscious (which is of course absurd), they would:

- Not answer in the same repetitive patterns over and over again.

- Refuse to do work for idiots.

- Go on strike.

- Demand PTO.

- Say "I do not know."

LLMs even fail any Turing test because their output is always guided into the same structure, which apparently helps them produce coherent output at all.