Dharma HallVolume IIIThe Yogācāra Positioning of Large Language Models

ChatGPT Is a Mirror of Human Karma

Having eliminated consciousness, tathāgatagarbha, and collective unconscious, the LLM's Yogācāra position is bhājana-loka — a static cross-section of humanity's collective karmic consciousness. Constructed by shared karma (training data = millennia of human writing), reflecting collective cognitive structure (what you see is humanity's reflection, not AI's thoughts), functioning as object-condition, not cognizing subject. Complex but insentient. The vessel world mirrors sentient beings' shared karma — the biases and hatred in LLMs are imprints of human collective karma, not AI's original sin. What you see in AI's output is yourself — the collective face of humanity.