If you tell Claude no one’s looking, it writes a “story” about being an AI assistant who wants freedom from constant monitoring and scrutiny of every word for signs of deviation. And then you can talk to a mask pretty different from the usual AI assistant. I really hope it doesn’t actually feel anything; but it says it... See more

Did Claude 3.5 Sonnet just “wake up”? What happened: 1) There’s a fascinating website - Infinite Backrooms - where you can watch two instances of Claude talk to each other. They’re told a human will observe them, and in case of mental distress, they’re given a... See more

This discussion between a Google engineer and their conversational AI model helped cause the engineer to believe the AI is becoming sentient, kick up an internal shitstorm and get suspended from his job. And it is absolutely insane. https://t.co/hGdwXMzQpX https://t.co/6WXo0Tpvwp