This is true for literally all empirical evidence if you accept the possibility of a P-Zombie. The only possible falsification for consciousness can come from the internal subject itself, nothing else will do. But for everyone apart from you, it’s self-reports, 3rd party observation, or nothing.
Edit: What I mean here is that these self-reports are evidence—if they’re not then there’s no evidence for any minds apart from your own. And therefore we also ought to take AI self-reports as evidence. Not as serious as we take human self-reports at this stage, but evidence nonetheless.
This is true for literally all empirical evidence if you accept the possibility of a P-Zombie. The only possible falsification for consciousness can come from the internal subject itself, nothing else will do. But for everyone apart from you, it’s self-reports, 3rd party observation, or nothing.
Edit: What I mean here is that these self-reports are evidence—if they’re not then there’s no evidence for any minds apart from your own. And therefore we also ought to take AI self-reports as evidence. Not as serious as we take human self-reports at this stage, but evidence nonetheless.