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!
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.
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.
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.
pledge allegiance to AI safety and undergo a psychological profiling test, per The Information.
And according to a rumor that, per The Spectator‘s Sean Thomas, is running rampant in Silicon Valley these days, some Anthropic engineers are going as far as to “worship” the company’s AI model Claude.
It would seem that the AI safety psych profiling test should be screening out / rejecting those who would give an AI “whatever it wants.”
This is easily the least scary and convincing analogue horror series ever.
Just give it up.
Reminds me of the Saturn car-cult. I see them getting together and showing each other questioningly disturbing generated pics on their pocket telephones. I’d love to see the venn digram overlap of maga vs. ai cult members.
pocket telephones
You’re an LLM aren’t you?
No. I’m willfully old. I don’t use Google, I use ‘the Google’.
I’ve been on the internets too!
The Machine God, already?
