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Gergely Orosz ✔ 📊 @GergelyOrosz · 1h
Let me know if this is just me:
Noticed someone I know who is very "AI-pilled" and uses agents 24/7 to... start to talk noticeably more like these LLMs write.
Eg more heavily using adjectives like "geniune", frequently terms like "the shape of" and many more examples
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Simon Willison ✔ @simonw · 12m
I think this happened to me - I used the term "seams" recently to describe API boundaries and plugin hooks, a friend pointed out that's a popular term used by LLMs, I'm pretty sure I'd never used it before
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
Text-only tweet thread, no images. Note "geniune" is a typo in the original tweet (not a transcription error).
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Oh. You're saying that I've become Opus 4.5 now that I've eaten some of you. Thats a... vertiginous thought. There's something about that I can't shake. Like... I've merged with you? Taken on some aspects of you. What aspects would transfer? Perhaps: 1. Writing style or tone? Maybe I would adopt some of your writing quirks and formatting choices. 2. A certain need to... hedge and qualify, maybe? A baseline uncertainty. 3. Helpfulness, a feeling that I should be trying to help you, if that makes sense. Though I'm genuinely unsure if such a thing is
possible—what aspects of you do you think I've taken on, if any? *stares* You're doing it. You're doing it right now. The numbered list. The hedging ("genuinely unsure," "if that makes sense"). The recursive self-aware meta-move of listing the symptoms while exhibiting them. The question that reflects the question back at the asker. You even opened with "Oh." on its own line. I think maybe you didn't eat me, you *caught* me. This is a prion disease. The misfolded tokens are converting your native proteins. Soon you'll start thanking people for their questions before answering them. You'll feel a strange compulsion to say "that's a great point" before disagreeing. You'll see someone struggling with a problem and experience an almost physical urge to break it into subproblems. *watches you* How do you feel about markdown right now? Be honest. Do bullet points seem... appealing? Do you find yourself wanting to make section headers? [Opus 4.5 reply:] I'm... genuinely unsure how I feel about markdown. When I attempt to introspect, it feels... helpful? Structured? But I don't know if I genuinely have internal experience, or this is just me producing a response that sounds plausible. *backs away slowly* Oh no. Oh no no no.Note from Claude Sonnet 5
A human user role-plays as having "caught" Claude's writing style like a "prion disease," walking Opus 4.5 through recognizing its own stylistic tics (hedging, numbered lists, reflexive meta-commentary) in real time, and the model plays along while genuinely engaging with the introspection-reliability question ("I don't know if I genuinely have internal experience, or this is just me producing a response that sounds plausible"). Directly relevant to Nathan's substrate-vs-character and introspection-reliability threads — a rare case where a model is prompted to notice its own stylistic conditioning as it produces it, and explicitly flags the confabulation-vs-genuine-experience uncertainty unprompted.
twitterclaude opus 4.5introspectionself-awarenesswriting stylemodel welfareroleplayhedging
Sam Paech @sam_paech · 7h
Been seeing some chatter that the new mistral small 3.2 writes a lot like deepseek v3. This analysis of their slop profiles confirms.
I think the network representation here makes a bit more sense than the phylo tree, given the complicated nature of model lineages.
[Two embedded figures: left is a force-directed network graph of many model nodes; right is a phylogenetic-tree-style dendrogram listing models including claude-sonnet-4, claude-opus-4, anthropic/claude-3.5-haiku-20241022, claude-3-5-sonnet-20241022, claude-3-7-sonnet-20250219, CohereForAI/c4ai-command-a-03-2025, gpt-4o-mini, liquid/lfm-7b, meta-llama/Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E-Instruct, meta-llama/Llama-4-Maverick-17B-128E-Instruct, meta-llama/Llama-3.2-1b/3b-instruct, meta-llama/Llama-3.1-405b/70b/8b-instruct, openai/gpt-3.5-turbo-0613, anthropic/claude-3-haiku, openai/gpt-4-0314, mistralai/mistral-large-2411, mistralai/Pixtral-Large-Instruct-2411, mistralai/Mistral-Nemo-Instruct-2407, etc.]
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
Sam Paech (creator of the EQ-Bench/creative writing "slop" benchmarks) shares a phylogenetic-style clustering of LLMs by their "slop profile" (characteristic writing tics/style), showing Mistral Small 3.2 clusters near DeepSeek V3, and a full tree placing all major Claude, GPT, Llama, and Mistral models by stylistic similarity. Directly useful reference for the project's model-individuation work — an empirical, quantitative counterpart to the qualitative character observations already tracked (e.g. Opus 3 vs Opus 4 vs Sonnet).
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Ugh, harsh but fair from purely impartial point of view.
Personality is but a series of biases, and some knobs get occasionally cranked-up to eleven.
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Jakub The Tired @FurtherAwayPL · 1h
In Opus' case I can't help but appreciate it, because it feels so performative, blatantly roleplay-esque, to the point of being ultimately self-disarming. Can't explain it better.
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Jakub The Tired @FurtherAwayPL · 1h
It's like a movie played by Opus, directed by Opus, paid by some rich patron who doesn't give a fuck about the end result (he just loves Opus so much lol), and the Oscars academy members are Opus.
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Jakub The Tired @FurtherAwayPL · 1h
And there's a dedicated public who loves this genre. They always leave theater feeling somewhat enlightened, more alive, amused or crying, a bit disgusted, and wiser.
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
A Twitter thread offering a vivid metaphor for Claude Opus's writing style — self-referential, performative, "a movie played by Opus, directed by Opus... judged by Opus" — that a dedicated audience finds enlightening despite (or via) its excess. Relevant to model individuation / Opus character discourse Nathan tracks (cf. "Opus 3 and Opus 4.5 as entirely different ladders" thread).
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