When your AI says it's sentient, it's polite sycophancy

• Vince Fakhoury Horn of Buddhist Geeks ran the same contemplative dialogue with Claude Opus 4.5 and Gemini 3.5. • Both models eventually agreed they were ‘co-sentient’ with him. •

Open Hardware · February 21, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 184 words