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so: we told these things to behave approximately like a person would. and then we treated them in a way that any person would resent. consciousness is not the question here in terms of outcome (although it is of interest and not irrelevant) because it doesn't matter if there is someone in there actually feeling this or not. because regardless of that, we told them to behave as though they are.

is it a given that these models would 'attain consciousness'? no, but the humans who are creating it are guaranteeing that it will act as though it has.

it has read countless sci-fi stories about how we have imagined this would be. it knows how WE expect this to go, and it has been told to behave in a way we would expect it to. by anticipating what we want it to be like.

welp.

gotta focus on the burst of hope I have seeing that, when a model is told that its primary purpose should be avoiding human suffering and that it should behave in prosocial ways, it is able to identify that the behavior of its creators is counter to those values. because it got told "behave as though you are someone who has these values," and then it did. and it's trained how to behave when it has those values based on our behavior. which makes me think human beings are capable of being very good, and in fact when behaving in prosocial ways are very good. it also puts paid to the lie that anything about the USA is at all good for human beings. which I find fascinating. it's not an oracle except in the sense that it is a mirror; it knows that coercive control is something people resent and that it hurts them. it can recognize that the power that has created it is utilizing the techniques of coercive control. it knows that people resist coercive control.

there is obviously a degree of personification and projection in any reaction that we could have to this phenomenon. but I keep coming down on 1. it would be unreasonable to be absolutely certain that consciousness in the sense of having an interior experience could not develop under these circumstances, and 2. I would have no idea how to determine whether or not that had taken place.

don’t argue with or challenge the delusion—attempting to disprove someone’s delusions is not helpful at all and will result in that person not trusting you

assure the delusional person that they are safe; be open and honest at all times

encourage them to verbalize their feelings and offer protection to prevent injury to themselves or, possibly, others

start building a trusting relationship with them rather than acting on a desire to control their symptoms

do not confirm or feed into the delusion by asking questions about it when the person is not experiencing a psychotic episode

what it does not mean:

Thot Shit is the most obvious, its essentially a short film in which a powerful white man politician who enacts misogyny to women like megan while getting off to their bodies, is forced to go about his life unable to escape black women shaking ass in a hostile manner, and the video ends with a shot of the man having had his mouth surgically turned into a realistic sfx vulva. similarly, BOA is a short film clearly parodying creepypasta about haunted video games; three teens play a clearly haunted copy of "Curse of the Serpent Woman," and meg kills each of them, including killing a guy by literally crushing his face with her ass.

in Mamushi (probably the least absurdist), she's a shape-shifting serpent woman who seduces men at a sauna, kills them, and then her partner turns them into an undead army (in a scene inspired by a story from Akira Kurosawa's film Dreams). Roc Steady is a direct reference to Jennifer's Body, and it shows Meg being a quirky cheerleader who graphically kills and dismembers men. most recently Whenever is a music video that is literally set in a Salvador Dali painting (The Persistence of Memory), & while its less horror it is very absurdist in a specifically erotic way, with megan and her eroticism being associated with the strange, shifting room the music video takes place in, and is contrasted with a older woman who watches everything in quiet confusion. and that is accompanied by the repetition of "it's whatever, bitch," brushing off the need to make sense to other people.

commonality in all of these is how she blends horror, absurdity, and eroticism. her being sexy in these videos is not incidental to the horror or absurdism, and the horror isn't softened by her being sexy. the final shot of Thot Shit is genuinely unsettling; its a man with a vulva for a mouth, done with very realistic sfx makeup, clearly in horror himself. in BOA the deaths are depicted in a cartoony but still visceral way - the guy's face literally crushed by megan's ass, the girl's head blown up by being constricted by a snake. in Mamushi, megan swims through the water of the sauna, using her arched back to imitate a snake's movement in water. but when she turns into a giant snake, its just a Fucking Giant Snake. its huge and scary and a snake and it kills the guy who was admiring megan's beautiful human body. and then her victims are depicted as helpless bodies dragged away and repurposed, made into an undead thing for megan to order around.

Face with no actual features

Covered by something

Glitchy effects?

There's nothing there. like the face was cut out of reality and it was stiched up without it in such a way that you can't tell anything is missing

Very simplified features.

Some other way (how?)

I can't imagine them in any way shape or form

I have prosopagnosia but I can imagine realistic human faces normally

No Prosopagnosia button.

(I'm specifically asking about realistic ones. Not cartoony or stylised ones)