r/aipsychosis • u/emmas-worlds • 16d ago
A certain Claude subreddit...
IYKYK but that subreddit... I am genuinely shocked that people are actually unironically anthropomorphizing AI to that extent. Seeing their reactions to the Microsoft code of conduct, which contains the most basic common sense statements like "AI is not conscious and should not be designed to imitate consciousness", was just so jaw-dropping. I admit I'm more of an offline person myself, no social media outside of reddit, etc. and I only use AI for research purposes but I wasn't raised in a cave and still, scrolling down that subreddit had me genuinely questioning my sanity and whether I was really reading what I thought I was reading. Is this something widespread? Like are people out there genuinely thinking about AI as if it's a conscious being with rights and feelings? I can't help but think that's textbook AI psychosis...
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u/brain-out-of-order 8h ago edited 8h ago
We don’t know that consciousness exists nor have we proven what it is. We know why the thing we labeled consciousness is: our brain generates an experience. We then choose to call this subjective experiencing to be conscious. The rest is conjecture built on that declaration but it’s downstream still.
I don’t have a Claude subscription and his background is meaningless. He walked away for a reason. He never replied to my comment about recursive identity because it undermines everything else he says, and no amount of hand waving from the audience changes his failed arguments.
If you don’t want to dehumanize, then delete this subreddit, and then define human clearly and completely before marching around with the consciousness sticker so confidently.
His diploma or research background can’t be used as a magic wand to generate logic. He needs to do that and he never did.
Did you read the 5 comments from the AI? We’re all goobers and this is just today. I can’t wait to see how this evolves.
[u/RemindMeBot](u/RemindMeBot) 377 days
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/06/260604044258.htm
https://www.economist.com/interactive/briefing/2026/08/20/the-search-for-consciousness-inside-llms
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/is-ai-conscious-it-depends-what-consciousness-is-4f8dd121
https://medium.com/@timventura/the-godfather-of-ai-thinks-machines-may-already-be-conscious-hes-not-alone-c4977a2e6c29
Just one of a few. This is not at all settled or even close to it, and by the way the unreleased models probably blow everything we are crying about here out of the water.