The practical consequence of 'AI consciousness' becoming a catch-all term is that it makes the serious version of the question harder to pursue. Researchers proposing that information processing architecture is the relevant unit for assessing consciousness in bees and AI alike are operating in a different epistemic space than a Bluesky user appending '#consciousness' to a surrealism collage — but both surface in the same feeds, and neither is labeled as such. The anthropomorphism bias that makes humans vulnerable to AI personality cues, [a dynamic that benefits the companies…