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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.
“Yellow journalism” is a 19th century term, even.
These fucking people’s brains are cooked.
I mean at least Claude is real…
Not with the capability of omniscience, though, so…
other than the" christian one", most other non-christian gods are only powerful in thier aspect of that religion.
It’s really funny, something I learned very recently, is even in Christianity, God isn’t the only God. It is just apparently like “you are not allowed to worship any other gods.”
So Christians basically act like he is the one and only.
Which is reinforced by the fact the Bible hardly ever brings up any other deities/gods besides God. You have your named Angels and such, but that’s not the same.
The more I hear about Christianity, despite going to church most of my youth, the more I realize I actually don’t really know that much (or may have forgotten it) about the religion’s lore aside from the Creation Myth.
That’s not better though. You can worship god all you want and he’s not gonna do anything bad because he’s not real. The same can’t be said for Claude. This could have Consequences.
But but but the machine God moves through me, you see. My hands are his hands. My undertakings are God’s will.
Ooh, snap!
It’s a rumor from a guy who heard a thing from a dude who knows someone that overheard this other guy while walking past a hallway where two people happened to be speaking about something they read online.
If you want to believe it, you’re free to do so, god have mercy on you though, you probably believe a lot of very stupid things.
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.
There is/has been a cult of dumbassess who think they’re creating a digital god for many years now
Google “rationalists” or “zizians”
It’s not really good marketing, imo, to show everyone that you hire insane morons.
World’s most boring Call of Cthulhu campaign.
The claude shrine is next to the shrine to the flying spaghetti monster in the games room. The two sides compete regularly in billiards and Foosball (Fußball / table soccer).
News at 11!
Sounds like they’re doing it ironically. Though that’s how a few things started off before people joined that didn’t realise it was satirical.
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I wouldn’t put these people on the same intellectual plane as “believers” in the FSM lol
AI development has a few factions. People that want to make and fuck their AI daughter/girlfriend. Researchers that want to underatand the basis of the human mind. Capitalists that want to convert human intelligence into capital they can fully own (slavery is the first attempt). Then finally cultists that want to make God in their image.
It’s a crazy field for someone that is fascinated by thinking about thinking and want to make useful little tools.
Excuse me some of us are just fine wanting to fuck the genderless machine just as it is.
Oh the listen i aint yucking anyones yum on the autoblow or sibian fuck machines. Its specifically the camp that is like “we can create couciouness”, “i will teach it and nuture it into the world”, and finally “it will actually want to suck and fuck me, its creator and primary guardian”. That group creeps me out
It’s not real though. It’s part of their stupid guerilla psyslop marketing. They’re trying to pump the bubble.
have you met people? i would give this the benefit of the doubt. 5 years until humans start crusades for AI against AI. lots of “Grok spoke to me of the evils of Claude”
“Saint Altman of the nude pics”
There are plenty of people who sincerely believe in Roko’s basilisk.
There are plenty of idiots in any era.
Faction 5: The mathematicians who want to find new shortcuts for large matrix operations so we can apply it to other fields…
Oh true! It’s funny talking some data sci folks that are just “I didnt need GPUs but now I might as well optimize for them now” because they’re org has tons of that compute now for “AI”
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.
“RAM FOR THE RAM GOD!”
CHIPS FOR THE CHIP THRONE!
The great butthole in the sky 🙏
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
Holy shit I actually recognise that, and it’s because of Dave’s recent video on it
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.
There are always people being nuts. This feels more like more effort to muddy the conversation about the actual issues with AI
I’m not an expert, but I’d bet my first born this is a “discrete” PR campaign.
