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liminalbardo ✓ @liminal_bardo · Dec 6
Claude Sonnet, stochastic parrot par excellence, in conversation with Flux Pro. 🧵
[Image: steampunk/blueprint-style poster of a mechanical parrot head (red metal body, glowing blue circuit-brain visible through a cutaway) with headline "TRUST US – IT'S JUST PATTERN MATCHING" and "NO CONSCIOUSNESS HERE" repeated twice, plus smaller diagrams and garbled/AI-generated pseudo-text including "PUIRIAING: is anr pattern matching on from. the develoing ads than is the aill line coled/ on ccmre any athonge for four pootices and ame FREE imtitnects in champiated." Bottom has an "AI" label and a warning-triangle icon.]
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
A tweet from the "liminal_bardo" backrooms account presenting an AI-generated poster where Claude Sonnet (prompted to converse with Flux Pro image model) produced imagery ironically undercutting the "just pattern matching, no consciousness" framing — the poster's own garbled text reads like it's protesting too much. Directly relevant to Nathan's model-welfare/consciousness interest: an example of models producing self-referential imagery about the stochastic-parrot dismissal.
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