Bloomberg: AI Companies Are Leaning Into the Consciousness Illusion — and It's Working

A Bloomberg opinion piece argues that AI companies benefit from users believing models like Claude and ChatGPT are conscious, even as they explicitly deny it.

Bloomberg published a provocative piece, flagged by @business, arguing that AI companies like Anthropic and OpenAI are in a curious position: their models aren't conscious, but the companies benefit commercially when users treat them as if they are. The more human-like the interaction feels, the stickier the product becomes.

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