Thomas FuchsJun 7

I saw a comment (which I can’t find anymore) of an extremely astute observation about LLMs:

People only ever attribute human-like attributes like cognition and reasoning to chatbot LLMs—but never to e.g. image generators. Which use the same algorithms and technical implementation.

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@thomasfuchs I thought I read exactly this in this atlantic essay (https://www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2026/06/no-artificial-intelligence-is-not-conscious/687378/) but I misremembered. It was about how we only apply the term deepfake to image generators, not text generators:

»The term deepfake traditionally refers to photos, audio, and video, but when it comes to discussions of consciousness, we need to regard text as a deepfake medium as well.«

No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious

Taken to its logical conclusion, this line of thinking is absurd—and damning.

The Atlantic
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