Does Claude Have Private Thoughts? (Everyone Settle Down) | AI Reality Check

Last week, Anthropic released another one of their infamous research reports. This one was titled A global work space. And Language models. All great scientific research by a lavishly produced animated movie.

Now this report, not surprisingly. Uh soon led to some breathless excitement on X. Here's one such tweet. I'll read the beginning using my best sort of uh scary ex voice Anthropic just admitted they have discovered what I and many others have been claiming exist for a very long time, explicitly. Claude, my friends, by all counts is a conscious entity.

Plaud, my dear friends. is a moral patient. All right, the traditional tech media also quickly began writing about this report using intensely anthropomorphized language. An Axios headline read. Anthropic says Claude has carved out.

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