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The Mirror Has No Face:
Why AI Only Sounds Conscious When You Ask It To

1 Mar 202625 min listen

AI & Machine Learning
LLMs
Consciousness

The Mirror Has No Face: Why AI Only Sounds Conscious When You Ask It To

LLMs produce self-awareness language only when prompted. Empirical evidence shows zero unprompted psychological language in 100,000 neutral prompts, context-dependent register switching, not emergent consciousness.