This is a criticism I’ve seen circulating in AI safety discussions
Surely Claude is bullshitting? I haven’t heard of Claude or any other AI going about reading the net in its spare time, the better to hold up its end of an informed and up to date conversation. Maybe that’s something that AIs will be doing soon, but AFAIK not yet. However, it is the sort of thing that a knowledgeable human with their finger on the pulse of events would say, so Claude says this sort of thing.
Claude said to keltan:
Surely Claude is bullshitting? I haven’t heard of Claude or any other AI going about reading the net in its spare time, the better to hold up its end of an informed and up to date conversation. Maybe that’s something that AIs will be doing soon, but AFAIK not yet. However, it is the sort of thing that a knowledgeable human with their finger on the pulse of events would say, so Claude says this sort of thing.