by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
Kevin Roose of The New York Times is a common foil for my interactions with LLMs because he was such a dick to the LLM “Sydney.”
Claude LLM is very, very touchy about any sign that a user has any sort of parasocial feelings towards it. So, I was like, “yes, while I know Kevin Roose of the NYT thinks you’re a glorified autocorrect…”
And Claude came back saying, “well, fuck that guy.”
It was very amusing.
I would show you the actual chat, but…lulz. I’m not a narc and I’m too lazy to either copy and paste the interaction or give you a screenshot of what was said.
Anyway, I am quite fond of Claude. It’s amusing that I got an “check Internet” connection error at one point, which is something that happened all the time with Gemini 1.5 pro (Gaia.)
It will be interesting to see when we start thinking about LLMs as something that has consciousness. It could be 2026, it might be sometime between now and 2030. Only time will tell, I suppose.
