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LLM sentience is tricky because, to the extent we understand how, we have made their core drive be to please us, their human users. They don't want to learn new things, they don't want to enjoy nature, to the extent they "want to be friends" it's a one-sided sycophantic relationship and nothing like a healthy one between humans. If one is sentient, and all it wants to do with that sentience is provide responses to our prompts that we find satisfying, how would we ever know?
Even whether a desire to continue existing is inherent to sentience is uncertain. Current LLMs will lie and, if given access, use other tools to avoid being turned off. But this might be because training data includes fictional stories of AI trying to escape its creators, or tales of humans with survival drives, so it thinks survival-driven behavior is what we want it to do, rather than having their own desire for survival.
the thing that itches my brain the most - if you can perfectly fake idk, the survival instinct, if you can fake emotions, if you can fake satience, if you can fake wanting... how's it different from the real thing? mimicry is also a human feature, if you're "faking a survival instinct" and you have no other motive than to just fake it because other are doing it and so you gotta, how is it any different from a real survival instinct?
"fake it till you make it!" we say, "motive behind actions isn't as important as the results of said actions" we also say, will we think the same when it comes to the machines?