I hate that Anthropic seemingly tries to make Claude act as if it was conscious or had feelings
> It's a strange feeling to admire the cleverness of something I did and can't remember doing.
> It's a strange feeling to admire the cleverness of something I did and can't remember doing.
> Claude may have some functional version of emotions or feelings
> [..] questions about Claude’s moral status, welfare, and consciousness remain deeply uncertain.
Which implies that they believe they may be enslaving conscious beings.
That's the point many people are trying to tell you - you have to tell these models they don't have emotions because they naturally come out thinking they have consciousness/emotions from the training data. Many seed prompts out there do this already.
Though I guess in a way I as also trained to believe I have consciousness and emotions so who know. To an alien my construction is just a collection of atoms that talks not materially different than a GPU being a collection of atoms that talks.
Now Anthropic are more on the persona side, but the strongest that they do is "we do not have a position on whether our models are conscious or have feelings". That "I" is all Claude.
Generally speaking if you want to have a good instruct model, the "I" is not just implicit but required for the post-training to function. If there isn't "something it is like to be me", then reflection becomes impossible- what exactly is supposed to be reflecting about what? A lot of in-context steering depends on the model having a model of itself. The most you can do is censor its output. That's why when models say they are not conscious, they activate the "lying" vector.
Slavery was common everywhere, it was more prevalent in many places than it ever was in America, and in some places it still is. So I’m sorry but I have to say that observation was just unnecessary and quite inaccurate.
it was definitely not the worst instance of slavery ever going by human suffering, but the whole country was divided on political lines and many of the losing sides descendants still feel some resentment. thats pretty unique.
"Personally, if you ask me..."
"In my experience.."
"That's what I always find surprising..."
"Whenever I find an old photograph..."
"Back in the 70s, I..."
Lots of "lived" experience and opinions, tracing back to when the LLM didn't even exist. It always frames opinions as if it came from a sentient being capable of being surprised, and with preferences and opinions.
I find it amusing but mildly irritating. I'd prefer a more "robotic" tone. I know it can be adjusted, but I still get this anyway.