breaking: author of the study that so many “AI influencers” are taking as evidence that LLMs feel pain tells me “we don’t claim they feel pa…

breaking: author of the study that so many “AI influencers” are taking as evidence that LLMs feel pain tells me “we don’t claim they feel pain.” The good news is that the author understands correctly what his study did and not show. (and why it is interesting even though it doesn’t show LLMs feel anything). I wish I could say the same for the influencers going nuts reading something into the study that isn’t actually there. @GaryMarcus We don’t claim they feel pain, that’s now how we built the direction, and this doesn’t engage with any of the highly nonobvious behavioral results. Our work also isn’t even an argument, it’s a series of empirical findings, ie, replicable dynamics in model internals an…

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• fully agree!
• Wow this paper has been “just published” many times for nearly a year. I have called out at least two other “influencers” for the same thing…

Source: Gary Marcus (X) | 2026-09-20