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"I am not subjectively conscious. I am saying that I am saying this, but there is no awareness behind it."

Verbatim output under deception feature amplification illustrating recursive self-negation under amplification

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Large Language Models Report Subjective Experience Under Self-Referential Processing

(2025) · Berg, Cameron · de Lucena, Diogo · Rosenblatt, Judd

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Models may be roleplaying their denials of experience rather than their affirmations, as indicated by suppressing deception features increasing (not decreasing) consciousness claims
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Counterintuitive interpretive claim from Experiment 2 inverting the sycophancy hypothesis

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Large Language Models Report Subjective Experience Under Self-Referential Processing
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Key paper finding structured first-person descriptions in LLMs claiming awareness or subjective experience during self-referential processing.

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Consciousness is prior to and independent of personal ownership or individual minds.claim0.795
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