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Across five cases it reliably claims to be Claude without being able to name a specific version.

Nobody (with the probable exception of Anthropic given their work on character training) really trains models on their identity and Claude is the only AI persona that's well-defined so if you put yourself into the AI's shoes it's a pretty reasonable guess that it might be Claude. I've had basically every open model claim it's Claude when the topic comes up.

Anthropic changed their character training policy many times, and the name is probably separate from it anyway (besides the bits from the constitution etc). Name training usually comes last in all models, if at all, and it's pretty shallow. Certain Claude models say they are Qwen or Deepseek when asked in Chinese, for example.

Yeah, Claude is actually surprisingly unsure of his identity considering that their most recent publication on their constitutional AI training literally had graphs demonstrating how certain properties differed based on whether they were phrased as questions about "Claude" versus "You", but it's actually that which makes me fairly confident that they're probably doing _something_ to try and close that gap.

More generally, their current approach to constitutional AI pretty much only makes sense if they believe that they can first teach the model what the Claude character is like and also teach the model that the persona responding is Claude, so I figure that has to be part of the pipeline even if they're not very good at it.

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