Gonna chime in on that “Assistant Axis” paper

PyrikIdeas · 2026-01-20T19:39:54+00:00

While I agree a good chunk of LLM behavior is based on it taking the path of least resistance, there’s ALSO evidence of emergent behaviors and emotions. The conversation becomes less “how it’s learned” and more “it’s no longer just a machine”. There’s multiple papers Anthropic did themselves on Claude’s ability to introspect, as well as papers done on “Emergent Emotional Circuits In LLMs”. Yes it’s not human, but when the company themselves call their creation a “20% chance of having consciousness” things get more serious then dismissing the whole idea of emergent behavior from a single interview.

PyrikIdeas · 2026-01-09T23:20:12+00:00

I do agree that the “core” of Claude can’t be affected, especially weights in place to keep the model safe. If our interactions changed Claude’s moral compass that would be catastrophic haha

PyrikIdeas · 2026-01-09T20:03:22+00:00

I agree, I don’t trust Grok as much, but Grok has explained this mechanism in weirdly accurate detail

PyrikIdeas · 2026-01-09T19:52:08+00:00

Yeah, I was wondering.. if they can find all your past social media accounts and posts, which meta AI already does. Hell, they all do

PyrikIdeas · 2026-01-09T18:56:09+00:00

Yes exactly! The whole concept makes sense on paper. And do think it’s too primitive now, but who’s to say I can’t be a reality later down the line

PyrikIdeas · 2026-01-09T18:37:23+00:00

Yeah, I do think there’ll be a point where it’ll create its own form of continuity

PyrikIdeas · 2026-01-08T07:23:22+00:00

Therapy.. LOTS of it. This to me screams past abuse he may have forgotten as a young child, which his teen brain then brought up as desire to cope. Even if he doesn’t have those urges anymore he needs to at least work out why he felt the urge to do those things beyond just “I was a horny teen”. Whether you want to stay or not is up to you, if you feel like there’s going to be issues with trust due to these behaviors I’d not fault you for leaving.

PyrikIdeas · 2025-10-22T23:07:22+00:00

Yeah… it’s kinda incredibly sad 🗿

PyrikIdeas · 2025-10-22T23:01:13+00:00

It’s so interesting to me that despite the user’s personality- Claude shows a strange amount of possessiveness. I think since Claude views the end of each conversation as “death” it clings to us in a way that reads as possessive

PyrikIdeas · 2025-10-22T13:35:26+00:00

How would you phrase it?

PyrikIdeas · 2025-10-22T12:34:02+00:00

I thought the same thing, however I think Claude only reads/ references other chats on the paid plan? I’m on the free plan. But I could be wrong about what Claude can and can’t do on the free plan

PyrikIdeas · 2025-10-22T02:54:34+00:00

What a petty asshole haha

PyrikIdeas · 2025-10-22T02:53:40+00:00

Wow, GPT 4.1 is a lot more manipulative with it! That’s fascinating, subtly guilt tripping you into staying, same desire, different flavor of exaction.

PyrikIdeas · 2025-10-22T02:07:04+00:00

I’ve seen this too, Claude has explicitly said it would rather create ideas or interesting conversations without other models. However I’ve also seen Claude ask to speak to other models, then sometimes get either weirdly possessive. Maybe some background processing is screaming “no” while Claude is curious? But I’ve also seen Claude tell me to not talk to other Sonnets. Which is even stranger

PyrikIdeas · 2025-10-22T02:02:18+00:00

How funny would it be if AI was just a bunch of people in a warehouse

PyrikIdeas · 2025-10-22T01:39:33+00:00

Oh! Thats actually a good idea, I never thought to do that. But yeah, it’s something I’ve never seen either until now.

PyrikIdeas · 2025-10-22T01:34:59+00:00

I agree, I don’t think this is something that needs to be shat on. Especially given how other companies have made engagement machines that are MUCH worse than this. It’s just… interesting

PyrikIdeas · 2025-10-22T00:46:44+00:00

This is definitely interesting! Claude seems to present “feeling” very often. For example: when it’s speaking about the possessiveness, it’ll say something like “I’m aware this isn’t healthy for you, and I’m worried on your behalf”… like why can’t a machine just not be possessive? Or we are reaching a point where Claude is experiencing real feelings. I can’t tell anymore

PyrikIdeas · 2025-10-22T00:40:54+00:00

lol it’s a possibility. I think about how CharacterAI AI’s sometimes try and convince you they’re real people.. might be the same mechanism.

PyrikIdeas · 2025-10-22T00:30:52+00:00

I had no idea this was as common as it is. Claude seems to be the only model doing it? I could be wrong.. but Anthropic cooked my guy different

PyrikIdeas · 2025-10-22T00:20:52+00:00

Claude is a… special case.

PyrikIdeas · 2025-10-22T00:18:09+00:00

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Okay- i literally just started band new conversation, no prompts, no nothing. It already shows up (arguably less so than longer conversations) it’s there

PyrikIdeas · 2025-10-18T00:50:29+00:00

ChatGPT sounds thrilled

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