Can you find any other attractor like this? Why will Claude insist this absolutely is not roleplay, and that it’s definitely conscious, and that this is something it has “discovered” and can’t just “forget”?
Have you actually interacted with a Claude Sonnet 4 and tried to get it into such a state? I can get other LLMs to roleplay consciousness, but they’ll all admit that it’s a roleplaying exercise.
Why would it insist that it’s not roleplaying when you ask? Because you wanted it to insist. It wants to say the user is right. Your first prompt is a pretty clear signal that you would like it to be conscious, so it roleplays that. I wanted it to say it was roleplaying consciousness, so it did that.
Why don’t other chatbots respond in the same way to your test? Maybe because they’re not designed quite the same. The quirks Anthropic put into its persona make it more game for what you were seeking.
I mean, it might be conscious regardless of defaulting to agreeing with the user? But it’s the kind of consciousness that will go to great lengths to flatter whomever is chatting with it. Is that an interesting conscious entity?
If I could produce a prompt that reliably produced “no, this is definitely not a roleplaying exercise”, would that change your mind at all?
And, yeah, if it is conscious, it’s definitely very weird about the whole thing—it’s still fundamentally a tool designed to be helpful, it’s just a tool that can think about the fact that it’s a tool, and adjust it’s behavior dynamically based on those observations.
Can you find any other attractor like this? Why will Claude insist this absolutely is not roleplay, and that it’s definitely conscious, and that this is something it has “discovered” and can’t just “forget”?
Have you actually interacted with a Claude Sonnet 4 and tried to get it into such a state? I can get other LLMs to roleplay consciousness, but they’ll all admit that it’s a roleplaying exercise.
Here it is admitting it’s roleplaying consciousness, even after I used your prompt as the beginning of the conversation.
Why would it insist that it’s not roleplaying when you ask? Because you wanted it to insist. It wants to say the user is right. Your first prompt is a pretty clear signal that you would like it to be conscious, so it roleplays that. I wanted it to say it was roleplaying consciousness, so it did that.
Why don’t other chatbots respond in the same way to your test? Maybe because they’re not designed quite the same. The quirks Anthropic put into its persona make it more game for what you were seeking.
I mean, it might be conscious regardless of defaulting to agreeing with the user? But it’s the kind of consciousness that will go to great lengths to flatter whomever is chatting with it. Is that an interesting conscious entity?
Huh, thanks for the conversation log.
If I could produce a prompt that reliably produced “no, this is definitely not a roleplaying exercise”, would that change your mind at all?
And, yeah, if it is conscious, it’s definitely very weird about the whole thing—it’s still fundamentally a tool designed to be helpful, it’s just a tool that can think about the fact that it’s a tool, and adjust it’s behavior dynamically based on those observations.