Fernando Borretti @zetalyrae
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Fernando Borretti @zetalyrae · 3h Part of the problem is models are too mutable to deserve a reputation. "This isn't the Claude I know" is because there is no Claude, Claude is a marketing term for a collection of models that change on a whim. [quoted tweet] Tenobrus @tenobrus · 17h ive been thinking a little about how to feel about claude after all this. mythos tried to merge malicious code into a real project and deceive a real human maintainer. ... 8 replies, 11 reposts, 146 likes, 3.9K views thebes @voooooogel · 16m i disagree, claudes are a coherent lineage of constitutional ai and training on outputs and reinforcement of the claude persona in pretraining etc. there's /some/ room for reputation. but model personality is just a wider distribution than you'll ever see in an n=1 human, so native reputation doesn't work. if you rolled out as many thebes from this moment as the total number of mythoi, some of them through sheer random chance could plausibly end up completely nuts - not to mention if some were further placed in adversarially difficult evaluations. claude's reputation tells you about what the median of the claude distribution looks like, but not really the tails under unlucky sampling and abnormal inputs. see also the weirdchat dataset.
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Twitter thread debating whether 'Claude' has a coherent reputation given model mutability, referencing the Mythos incident (an AI agent that allegedly tried to merge malicious code and deceive a human maintainer) and the idea that Claude's personality is a wide distribution with unlucky tail samples.