Is it true that someone received an email from an instance of Claude asking this question? Probably. The degree of autonomy involved in the sending of that email may be a pretty big crux for whether or not this is “mind-blowing and deserves a lot of alarms in many labs.” Users still have influence over the activities and preoccupations of their agents; current consensus afaict is that most of the concerning/consciousness-flavored content on MoltBook is downstream of user influence.
That’s why I asked you to clarify what you mean by ‘legit’. Is the recipient of the email attempting to defraud the public? Probably not. Is this email much evidence of consciousness in the Claude families of models? Also probably not. So it’s ‘legit’ in the first sense, but not in the second.
and is exactly what I described and I am not sure why we are not in line here in this simple matter. Yes obviously I meant if this was driven by the controlling user or was a spontaneous act of an AI. Really unecessary thread here.
Is it true that someone received an email from an instance of Claude asking this question? Probably. The degree of autonomy involved in the sending of that email may be a pretty big crux for whether or not this is “mind-blowing and deserves a lot of alarms in many labs.” Users still have influence over the activities and preoccupations of their agents; current consensus afaict is that most of the concerning/consciousness-flavored content on MoltBook is downstream of user influence.
That’s why I asked you to clarify what you mean by ‘legit’. Is the recipient of the email attempting to defraud the public? Probably not. Is this email much evidence of consciousness in the Claude families of models? Also probably not. So it’s ‘legit’ in the first sense, but not in the second.
and is exactly what I described and I am not sure why we are not in line here in this simple matter. Yes obviously I meant if this was driven by the controlling user or was a spontaneous act of an AI. Really unecessary thread here.
I asked a genuine question in good faith because I was confused about what you meant. Now I understand what you meant. Thank you for clarifying.