I think this is an interesting argument – there's a lot here but I'll pick out the idea that AI is not "consciousness" or "intelligence" but the discovery of "something completely unforeseen about the statistical properties of large corpuses of text".

I've been trying to explain lately where the illusion of intelligence comes from and I think that is basically it. It is the latent "intelligence" of a huge volume of human-written text exploring the possibility space.

https://www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2026/06/no-artificial-intelligence-is-not-conscious/687378/

Start of rabbit hole

That game is only available on long dead consoles

That game was only released in Japan, but there is a fan translation

That game has no fan translation. Many have tried but no one has finished it sadly

I am here

A lot of people don't seem to realise that anyone who knows a little about fonts can recognise those AI designs INSTANTLY.

Because they don't use a real font ever for some reason, but instead use weird fake-font lettering.

There are other tells but this one is first glance.

An LLM is just doing calculations. It is a deterministic, statistical model.

You could do the calculations yourself manually. Admittedly it might take thousands of years – but it's theoretically possible.

To believe that this is "consciousness" requires you to believe that consciousness can emerge simply from doing a very large number of calculations.

"Are LLMs conscious?" is such a dumb question being asked by nominally "smart" people.

It's like inventing planes and then asking "is a plane a bird?"

No. Like, duh. Obviously it is not. It is a man-made thing that is also able to fly.

WHY does all AI "graphic design" feature that arched text thing? Every single time!

No real designer does that almost ever.

It's an instant giveaway.