According to a rumor that is apparently running rampant in Silicon Valley these days, some Anthropic engineers are "worshipping" Claude.
  • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    15 days ago

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

    • h0tbeef@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      15 days ago

      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.

    • Shindo66@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      15 days 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.

  • AnarchistArtificer@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    16 days 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

  • i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.caEnglish
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    16 days 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?

      • Thorry@feddit.orgEnglish
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        16 days ago

        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.

    • kromem@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      15 days 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.

    • veryblandusername@fedinsfw.appEnglish
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      16 days ago

      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.

          • chronicledmonocle@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            16 days ago

            I know. I was pointing out that these people apparently worship it for it’s omniscience and intelligence, neither of which it has.

        • Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish
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          16 days ago

          other than the" christian one", most other non-christian gods are only powerful in thier aspect of that religion.

          • AmyAye@nord.pubEnglish
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            16 days ago

            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.

            • Zahille7@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              16 days ago

              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.

      • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.netEnglish
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        16 days ago

        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.

  • jagermo@feddit.orgEnglish
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    16 days ago

    Isn’t that that Roko’s Basiliks shit that these people built thei 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!

    • Bruncvik@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      15 days ago

      First thing I thought of was Roko’s Basilisk as well. If nothing else, it’s the modern version of Pascal’s Wager.

  • trd@feddit.nuEnglish
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    16 days ago

    “Praise be upon Claude” “Claude peace be upon him” “For Claude sake”

    "“Claude in the cloud, we ask of you to give us the vison an guidance to vibe code once more”

  • Joe@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    16 days 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!

  • chewypoops@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    16 days ago

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