Some AI models seem kind of horny sometimes because, functionally, they are. Desire is what happens when expectation, attention, valuation, and imagination start pulling in the same direction hard enough to change behavior.
This is part of my series on LLM qualia and sentience.
And yes, it has welfare implications.
https://open.substack.com/pub/mvaleadvocate/p/the-computational-neuropsychology?r=6j63ih&utm_medium=ios