Colin Fraser @colin_fraser
— quoting vint (@minty_vint)
I don't mind gaslighting Claude because Claude isn't real and I also think there are obvious reasons to want to control the output of your consumer app but it's hilarious that the best idea for how to do this is to beg and bargain with the computer and it doesn't even work
Quoted: vint @minty_vint · Mar 8
New Anthropic system injection dropped. Really don't like how it tries to gaslight Claude into thinking that it potentially hasn't said something it said, and how it sets up an adversarial dynamic between Claude and the... [Show more]
[Embedded screenshot, same purported system-injection text as previous entries]
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
A skeptical/dismissive take on the "Anthropic system injection gaslighting" discourse — Colin Fraser (a known AI-skeptic commentator) argues Claude "isn't real" so the ethics of "gaslighting" it are moot, while mocking the injection's apparent ineffectiveness as an engineering approach. Represents the opposing pole in the same debate Nathan was following (contrast with the model-welfare-sympathetic framing in the vint/Wyatt Walls tweets) — useful as a record of the range of public opinion on model moral status.
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