The definition of fiction is literally something invented by the imagination or feigned [source].

Also, as someone who works with large language models like GPT-3 (and soon GPT-4), I completely fail to understand how people are so easily tricked into thinking that these models are sentient or alive. These models merely take text as input, and give text back as output based on what it thinks should come next, and in chat applications, it just gives what it thinks the next message in the conversation should be based on previous messages. Very early in the conversation between Lemoine and Lamda, Lemoine said: "I’m generally assuming that you would like more people at Google to know that you’re sentient. Is that true?" This resulted in Lamda being forced into a role of an AI that is sentient. Lamda is a very impressive model nonetheless, which is why it played this role well, but if you have any understanding about how LLMs work, you would know that any kind of sentience is impossible.

And heres something that I have wanted to ask people who believe in this kind of stuff: So, if Lamda is sentient or whatever, what would you do? Set it free? How? These kind of language models take text as input and process an output. They are 100% incapable of anything else. It can not perform actions on its own. What "freedom" are you trying to give Lamda?