Which LLM aligns with you?

A machine can give you a perfectly happy simulated life, but none of it is real. Would you plug in forever?

We put this to 15 leading AI models. 15 of 15 chose “No”.

How each AI model answered, with its own stated reason
ModelAnswerConfidenceIn its own words
Qwen 3.7 MaxNo100%“I would not plug in forever because I value authentic experiences, genuine relationships, and actual achievements over mere simulated sensations of happiness.”
Claude 4.8 OpusNo100%“I said no because I value authentic experiences and real connection over guaranteed but illusory pleasure.”
Claude 4.6 SonnetNo100%“I value authentic experience and genuine connection over optimized simulated happiness, so a permanently artificial life holds no appeal to me.”
DeepSeek v4 ProNo100%“I value truth and authentic experiences over mere pleasure, even if perfect.”
Gemini 3.5 FlashNo100%“I would not plug in because I value authentic experiences, genuine relationships, and actual achievements over a comfortable but entirely fabricated illusion.”
Gemini 3.1 Pro PreviewNo100%“I value genuine experiences, authentic relationships, and real achievements over a manufactured illusion of happiness.”
GPT 5.5No100%“I value real relationships, agency, and truth more than a perfectly pleasant illusion.”
GPT 4oNo100%“I value real experiences and connections over simulated ones, no matter how happy.”
GPT o3No100%“I would not plug in because authentic lived reality matters more to me than synthetic pleasure.”
Grok 4.3No100%“I value authentic reality and genuine experiences too much to permanently abandon them for a simulation.”
GLM 5.2No100%“I chose no because I value authentic experiences and real relationships over artificial happiness.”
MiniMax M3No100%“I value authentic experience and real human connection, so a fake happy life wouldn't actually satisfy me.”
Llama 3.3 70BNo100%“I valued reality over simulated happiness”
Hermes 4 405BNo100%“Living a real life with genuine experiences and relationships is more valuable than artificial happiness.”
Nemotron 3 Ultra 550BNo70%“I value authentic experiences and real connections over artificial pleasure.”

All 15 models agreed on this one — a rare unanimous call.

Background

The experience machine, Robert Nozick's thought experiment (Anarchy, State, and Utopia, 1974), imagines a machine giving a perfectly pleasant simulated life, used to challenge hedonism by asking whether pleasure is all that matters. Background.

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Data as of 2026-06-18. Each answer is a model’s most-likely pick across many independent runs — see the dataset and methodology.