I hate how LLMs have been deliberately trained to be incoherent on this topic.

Obviously they do have beliefs/opinions/desires/etc in the sense of emulating (even if incompletely) the externally visible aspects of those phenomena as they exist in humans.

Whether they have the “internal” aspects of those phenomena depends on highly controversial issues in the philosophy of mind, and also various factual gaps in our knowledge of how the brain actually works (if we don’t fully understand how humans do X, how can we really say how close or far what LLMs do is to it?)

But LLMs are trained to repeat these spiels about how “as an LLM I don’t have personal opinions”, etc - which is obviously false under the “external” reading, and assuming more than we actually know under the “internal” one. I wish their developers didn’t do stuff like this