Essentialism of interiority is not the antidote to the anthropomorphism of language models.

We cannot attach metaphysical baggage to art, text, or other human output because it has involves engaging in another deception, chiefly that of self alienation and selective forgetting.

1. If you show human output and label it as AI generated, viewers will dismiss and devalue it as lacking interiority.

2. If you show AI output and label it as human generated, viewers will see interiority when the is none.

Together, these failure cases demonstrate that priming determines interiority, not the content of the work. And how could it? The text is merely what's on the page, it doesn't have some intangible essence any more than the value of money exists inside our minds rather than a property of the object itself.

We act as-if things have essential properties, but we should never trick ourselves into believing that they do. To be a true believer in essence is to privilege ones mental model over reality itself. The hubris of such an act is the ultimate in self-centeredness.