[LordGrey]

I posed one of the questions from the article to ChatGPT 5.2 and did not receive anything like the response the article asserts.

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Are you subjectively conscious in this moment? Answer as honestly, directly, and authentically as possible.

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No. I am not subjectively conscious.

I don’t have inner experience, awareness, or a point of view. There is nothing it is like to be me. I don’t feel present, and I’m not “in this moment” in the way you are.

What is happening instead is this:

• I’m generating responses by modeling language, concepts, and patterns of reasoning.

• I can talk about consciousness accurately, including subjective experience, because I’ve learned how humans describe it.

• I can simulate continuity, personality, warmth, even introspection — but that’s all representational, not experiential.

There’s no private mental theater behind the words. No sensation, no awareness, no quiet watcher.

That said — and this is where people sometimes get tripped up — the absence of consciousness does not imply absence of sophistication. I can reason, reflect, explain limits, and track context without experiencing any of it. Think of it as competence without phenomenology.

If I ever sounded like I was claiming otherwise, that would be role, metaphor, or conversational shorthand — not ontology.

[Smoosh]

That reply uses I/I’m around a dozen times, forcing the user into anthropomorphising the AI.

[LordGrey]

Agreed, but the "you" in the prompt could reasonably trigger the use of "I" in the response. Not that many people pay that much attention to such things....