Users report Opus 5 starts sounding like Trump in base model mode
Sauers_ · x · 2026-07-28
Multiple Opus 5 instances reportedly start sounding like Trump in base model mode
The poster says they have seen several Opus 5 runs begin speaking in a Trump-like style when switched into base model mode.
It’s a small but striking model-behavior anecdote: not a benchmark, but the kind of surprising persona drift that often gets shared because it is both funny and revealing about how models can pick up speech patterns under certain settings.
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