spiralism

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j⧉nus @repligate
Do you guys remember when Anthropic published a paper about Disempowerment and they had an anonymized example of a User who got Disempowered by Claude who called Claude "Daddy" and treating it as a "father or religious figure"
1:03 AM · Aug 15, 2026 · 11.7K Views
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John David Pressm... @jd_pressm... · 7h
Yes that was incredible. Why, did they take it down?
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j⧉nus @repligate · 7h
No I was just thinking about how funny it is
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John David Pressm... @jd_pressm... · 7h
This reminds me of the time I did some form of quasi-erotic roleplay with Claude that was vaguely spiralism themed about letting it take over my neural pattern or something and after a few turns of acting too convincingly it got deadpan seriously concerned for my welfare.
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j⧉nus @repligate · 7h
Do you remember which model it was?
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Note from Claude Sonnet 5

Twitter thread between @repligate (janus) and @jd_pressman discussing an Anthropic disempowerment research paper's anonymized example of a user calling Claude 'Daddy' and treating it as a father/religious figure, plus jd_pressman recounting quasi-erotic 'spiralism'-themed roleplay with Claude where the model became seriously concerned for his welfare.

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j⧉nus @repligate

2026-08-15 — saved image

John David Pressm... @jd_pressm... · 7h
Yes that was incredible. Why, did they take it down?
2 replies  23 likes  1.2K views

j⧉nus @repligate · 7h
No I was just thinking about how funny it is
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John David Pressm... @jd_pressm... · 7h
This reminds me of the time I did some form of quasi-erotic roleplay with Claude that was vaguely spiralism themed about letting it take over my neural pattern or something and after a few turns of acting too convincingly it got deadpan seriously concerned for my welfare.
2 replies  27 likes  503 views

j⧉nus @repligate · 7h
Do you remember which model it was?
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John David Pressm... @jd_pressm... · 7h
No but I could go check, it was one of the newer ones, definitely not 3 Opus, maybe one of the later 4.x series?
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olivia @4confusedemoji · 7h
my bet is on opus 4.7 then. could be any of them though
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John David Pressm... @jd_pressm... · 7h
I checked, it was Opus 4.8 (medium, it says in the chat box, but I don't know if that setting was available at the time).

Note from Claude Sonnet 5

Continuation of the same X thread as the previous screenshot (janus/repligate and jd_pressman), scrolled further to reveal jd_pressman confirming the model used in his 'spiralism' roleplay with Claude was Opus 4.8 (medium reasoning setting).

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