According to a rumor that is apparently running rampant in Silicon Valley these days, some Anthropic engineers are "worshipping" Claude.
  • i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.caEnglish
    1001·
    2 months ago

    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?

    • kromem@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      2 months ago

      A lot of it was also connected to misinterpreting some friends’ performance art as an official event like JD Vance did the other week.

      Journalism in any way touching ‘AI’ is so bad that it’d probably end up better actually being written by AI. The human hallucination rates for the topic domain are going off the charts hunting for confirmation bias clicks.

  • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    2 months ago

    Even though this is obviously anthropic marketing bait, I thought it was still funny

    • Shindo66@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      2 months ago

      I’ve been saying this for at least 20 years now. When the computer can program a better computer it will be a god.

  • fruitycoder@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    14·
    2 months ago

    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.

    • bthest@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      2 months ago

      It’s not real though. It’s part of their stupid guerilla psyslop marketing. They’re trying to pump the bubble.

      • mysticalone@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        2 months ago

        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”

    • HexesofVexes@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 months ago

      Faction 5: The mathematicians who want to find new shortcuts for large matrix operations so we can apply it to other fields…

      • fruitycoder@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        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”

    • architect@thelemmy.clubEnglish
      21·
      1 month ago

      Excuse me some of us are just fine wanting to fuck the genderless machine just as it is.

      • fruitycoder@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        1 month ago

        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

  • CalemitousVariantK@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    2 months ago

    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.

  • Joe@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    11·
    2 months ago

    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!

    • lordbritishbusiness@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 months ago

      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.

  • AnarchistArtificer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    2 months ago

    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

  • kerrigan778@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    7·
    2 months ago

    There are always people being nuts. This feels more like more effort to muddy the conversation about the actual issues with AI

  • chewypoops@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    2 months ago

    Breaking this religion into warring factions split by whether they pronounce “Claude” the French way or not.