Someone Gave Their Consciousness to Gemini

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A person fed 5 years of their journals to Gemini, an AI model, raising questions about the nature of consciousness and digital legacy, with commenters discussing the implications and potential consequences.

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southwindcg

4 months ago

Actual title: I gave 5 years of my journals to an LLM against my better judgement...

gpucpufarmerAuthor

4 months ago

Interesting piece I stumbled on: https://open.substack.com/pub/mackenziesharp/p/i-gave-5-year.... Made me wonder: what kind of experiments or benchmarks would you design to test fidelity if someone claimed to upload their consciousness?

gpufarmer

4 months ago

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sfbayareaagi

4 months ago

Wow this is super interesting.

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