I get the sense that when people want to believe something is true they will willingly ignore evidence to the contrary. They want to believe that consciousness

I get the sense that when people want to believe something is true they will willingly ignore evidence to the contrary. They want to believe that consciousness can form from a giant spreadsheet of inferences. And so they will find evidence to support that theory. ChatGPT will change the world! Sure, it already has. If we pay attention to the outcomes and see evidence of how it's changing the world.. it's mostly people doing the changing with their desires, beliefs, and politics. Same as always. The system itself is nothing but an automaton. But aren't we all automatons too, building our self awareness around models of the word? Ah the AI version of the, "You can't prove that it's not consciousness!" Well we can as many scientists studying consciousness in humans and animals can attest: it's complicated, but we're getting better at understanding what it is. ChatGPT ain't it. Definitely worth looking at the motivations of the people building the technology itself.