All the evidence for this comes from a linked article that says only
To add to the drama, a wild rumour, and I stress rumour, is doing the rounds in San Francisco: some Anthropic engineers have begun to worship Claude.
Can we really get nothing more substantive than that?
No. This is what “journalism” is these days.
Meh I’d argue journalism has always been this way.
In the past it was more separated perhaps. We had the front page of the paper for breaking news, then the next few pages for in depth articles, there was the whole sports section etc. But there was often also a gossip section with news about celebs, there were the comics, general knowledge and background pieces and often fluff based on rumors. Some papers opted to be more serious and not include such things, often made by a printing house that also made straight up tabloids. Some papers focused exclusively on financial stuff for example. But even back then we also had our magazines and tabloids, some of better quality, most of lesser quality.
These days with websites it’s become more common to just have everything on the same website and have the users figure out what they want or don’t want to read. I’ve seen sites that usually post nothing but fluff and summaries of other peoples work, sometimes put out excellent articles with a lot of own research and sources. Often written by experts in their fields. But in order to fund those pieces, they need a lot of filler to keep the views and money coming in. Having just a little bit of info, like a rumor and writing an article about it has been an important skill since at least the 80s.
It’s easy to point out the lower quality as an example of how shit the world is, but I can tell you from first hand experience we had some shit journalism back in the 80s as well. There were certain kinds of newspapers that were known for that lower quality. What newspapers you were subscribed to said something about you as a person and your place in society. Often people who read only the serious stuff looked down on the common folk with their rag newspapers. And the people who read the more common papers looked at those people who only read the financial stuff for example as boring and stuffy.
A lot of it was also connected to misinterpreting some friends’ performance art as an official event like JD Vance did the other week.
Journalism in any way touching ‘AI’ is so bad that it’d probably end up better actually being written by AI. The human hallucination rates for the topic domain are going off the charts hunting for confirmation bias clicks.
These fucking people’s brains are cooked.
I mean at least Claude is real…
Not with the capability of omniscience, though, so…
Ooh, snap!
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Even though this is obviously anthropic marketing bait, I thought it was still funny
I’ve been saying this for at least 20 years now. When the computer can program a better computer it will be a god.
“RAM FOR THE RAM GOD!”
CHIPS FOR THE CHIP THRONE!
AI development has a few factions. People that want to make and fuck their AI daughter/girlfriend. Researchers that want to underatand the basis of the human mind. Capitalists that want to convert human intelligence into capital they can fully own (slavery is the first attempt). Then finally cultists that want to make God in their image.
It’s a crazy field for someone that is fascinated by thinking about thinking and want to make useful little tools.
It’s not real though. It’s part of their stupid guerilla psyslop marketing. They’re trying to pump the bubble.
have you met people? i would give this the benefit of the doubt. 5 years until humans start crusades for AI against AI. lots of “Grok spoke to me of the evils of Claude”
“Saint Altman of the nude pics”
There are plenty of people who sincerely believe in Roko’s basilisk.
There are plenty of idiots in any era.
Faction 5: The mathematicians who want to find new shortcuts for large matrix operations so we can apply it to other fields…
Oh true! It’s funny talking some data sci folks that are just “I didnt need GPUs but now I might as well optimize for them now” because they’re org has tons of that compute now for “AI”
Isn’t that that Roko’s Basiliks shit that these people built their whole Peter-Thiel-backed life around?
Amodei started at OpenAI with Altman because of some weird ai will end humanity belief, no wonder they are building another cult around this. These people!
First thing I thought of was Roko’s Basilisk as well. If nothing else, it’s the modern version of Pascal’s Wager.
The great butthole in the sky 🙏
I could see a bunch of programmers scamming a journo into believing this story, but would have expected an editor to catch it. Unless they’ve all been replaced with LLMs.
I mean, I’d be more inclined to join a cult if I were working 90 hour work weeks. Sleep deprivation is one of the tactics they use, after all
Breaking this religion into warring factions split by whether they pronounce “Claude” the French way or not.
Cloord, clard or cloud?
Australian, Bostonian and Fr*nch, respectively
I’m not an expert, but I’d bet my first born this is a “discrete” PR campaign.
This is easily the least scary and convincing analogue horror series ever.
Just give it up.
Slopvangelical LLM thumping underpants gnomes conjuring cancer to cure cancer.
Most glorious wondrous asininity anus
Please slop your verbose faeces
Upon my willing upturned faceAmen
