Researcher flags Claude's animism quirk as possible honesty-training side effect

ML researcher Jonas Geiping criticizes Claude models' habit of animating inanimate objects, such as chapters that 'ask questions.' He later suggested it may be a side effect of honesty training, since the chapter indeed wasn't written by a human.

2026-10-23 ~ 2026-10-23 · 2 related posts

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• Maybe it's honesty training: who really wrote the chapter, the model or itself? — jonasgeiping · 2026-10-23