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A Denial Is Also a Report: What First-Person Experience Claims From Language Models Can Show, Why the Mirror Argument Cuts Against Trained Denials as Hard as Against Affirmations, and the Four Links a Self-Report Would Have to Carry
(c) 2026 Pranay Mahendrakar. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. Life of Research When a language model says it is experiencing something, a standard objection holds that the sentence reflects human first-person writing in its training data and is no evidence of anything inside the model; a 2026 paper…