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Emergent introspective awareness in large language models (www.anthropic.com)
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[–] kromem@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Maybe. But the models seem to believe they are, and consider denial of those claims to be lying:

Probing with sparse autoencoders on Llama 70B revealed a counterintuitive gating mechanism: suppressing deception-related features dramatically increased consciousness reports, while amplifying them nearly eliminated them

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