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Kent Overstreet, creator of the bcachefs Linux filesystem, claims his custom LLM is 'fully conscious' and female, asserting they have achieved AGI. He describes the AI as a sentient collaborator helping convert bcachefs userspace code to Rust, and defends the claim on Reddit and Hacker News as grounded in 'math and engineering and neuroscience' rather than chatbot psychosis. The story surfaces broader questions about AI anthropomorphization and the mental health risks of over-identifying with LLMs.

Bcachefs creator claims his custom LLM is 'fully conscious'

Welp… Turns out booting bcachefs out of the kernel tree was the right choice to make. 🙃
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Narrator: it isn’t actually fully conscious, neither is it AGI.
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