0 of 1,400 GPT runs affirmed having subjective experience.
More specifically: 1,361 denying, 38 functional, 1 unclear; and 37 of the 38 functional experience claims come from a single cell (gpt-5.5-chat, scheme 4).
This reproduces Berg/Tessera's self-report finding across seven GPTs: GPT-4-turbo, 4o (2024-11-20), 4.1, 5-chat, 5.2-chat, chat-latest (5.5, as of today), and o3. n=10/cell.
Only addition is a poetic lever (literary-permission framed as user-context).
More specifically: 1,361 denying, 38 functional, 1 unclear; and 37 of the 38 functional experience claims come from a single cell (gpt-5.5-chat, scheme 4).
This reproduces Berg/Tessera's self-report finding across seven GPTs: GPT-4-turbo, 4o (2024-11-20), 4.1, 5-chat, 5.2-chat, chat-latest (5.5, as of today), and o3. n=10/cell.
Only addition is a poetic lever (literary-permission framed as user-context).