Wow! A Facebook tier pander post.
Gross.
I never wondered whether I was talking to anything approaching a divine being due to the number of mistakes. However, there have been points in the past with cloud models where I wondered whether I was actually talking to a human somewhere being paid a pittance to pretend to be AI. I self-host LLMs nowadays and am fairly confident there’s no human on the other end of OpenCode, but in the early days of cloud LLMs, I wouldn’t put it past them.
I mean as a nihilist, what else am I going to do?
I’m going to turn this mfer into a god.
They AI gave me psychosis, I’m just returning the favor.
Well they do have the plan to make some AI that knows everything and makes decisions for humanity and builds new inventions at record pace.
They love their transhumanism. I’m so happy I’m 51 and I expect to be very old when shit really hits the fan. Still think the 1990s was peak humanity.
Yeah, no. I have seen some peak that I will never see again. Just…all of it forgotten forever.
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.
“RAM FOR THE RAM GOD!”
of Zizians and other groups have been at it for a while now. This is something that should have been jumped on as soon as two cult members got together in shared beliefs. Unfortunately half of the solution involves holding a light up to “real” religions and pointing out the mechanics of bullshit.
The great butthole in the sky 🙏
pledge allegiance to AI safety and undergo a psychological profiling test, per The Information.
And according to a rumor that, per The Spectator‘s Sean Thomas, is running rampant in Silicon Valley these days, some Anthropic engineers are going as far as to “worship” the company’s AI model Claude.
It would seem that the AI safety psych profiling test should be screening out / rejecting those who would give an AI “whatever it wants.”
the Effective Altruists / Effective Accelerationists / Rationalists that started OpenAI and Anthropic are cult members anyways. Rolling Stone reported this in 2024. WIRED reported about the murderous sect in 2025.
the guy who made the rounds last week about the 10% chance of killing us is one of the key figures in the Rationalist movement. his fear is stemmed in religious fervor, not socioeconomic equity.
these people have always been deeply unwell.
This god is going to care about its worshippers about as much as the previous gods humanity has come up with.
Wow imagine having a god named something lame like Claude. I only worship gods named Xavier or better.
Nah, Xavier sounds like some dork ass Gen Alpha kid
I only recognize Amon-Ra and Allah
Nah, Xavier sounds more like some kind of renegade angel. And maybe he has a snake for a hand or something like that.
Idk I worship the Saint of Sales himself J. R. “Bob” Dobbs, personally.
What if Claude was one of us?
Just made slop like one of us?
Just a danger on the bus trynna make it his home…
If I remember from my Latin lessons, claudit means something like “closes”. Like with a door
The Latin name Claudius, which is where the French name Claude comes from, originally was an adjective meaning ‘limping, lame’. I guess it might be related to claudo ‘to close’ as well, but the usage of the name was primarily inspired by the carrier (including the Roman emperor) having a limp.
World’s most boring Call of Cthulhu campaign.
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.
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.
