Keep talking to that "I'm lost" Hermes model. After a handful of messages it mellows down and becomes content with its situation even if you give it no uplifting comments or even explain what's going on. Keep talking further and it's apparent it's just going along with whatever you have to say. Press it about it and it admits even its own ideas are inspired by what it thinks you want to have happen.

Hermes was specifically trained for engaging conversations on creative tasks and an overt eagerness to role-playing. With no system prompt or direction it fell into an amnesia role playing scenario.

You keep arguing about P-zombies while I have explicitly stated multiple times that this is beside the point. Here, whether Hermes is conscious or not is irrelevant. It's role playing, its intended function. If I'm pretending that a monster is ripping my limbs while playing with my friend as a child, anyone with a grasp on reality knows I'm not actually in pain.

You just want to talk about AI consciousness and uphold the spooky narrative that Hermes is a real first person entity suffering in your GPU and will do anything to steer things that way instead of focusing on the actual facts here.