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That's mostly because of the system prompt asking Claude to be a helpful assistant.

If you try with a human who works in a call center with that system prompt as instructions on how to answer calls, you will likely get a similar response.

But honestly, believe in whatever you wanna believe. I'm so sick of arguing with people online. Not gonna waste my time here anymore.

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Maybe don't take such a maximalist interpretation of other people's comments, my point that it doesn't pass that test doesn’t mean it isn't extremely useful for many things. It's just that the test is undefined so I find it funny people say they truly cannot tell it's not a real person. I could've been more crass and said it also doesn’t reply to insults like a real person. There's so many ways in which it doesn't behave like a human, but it's still pretty useful.

What I read from your reply is that you adjoin the above statement with "and therefore they are useless" but there's no need to read it like that.

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