Anthropic's Claude 3 Self-Projection: Often Imagines Itself as a Whale in an Underwater Office
repligate · x · 2026-08-01
Users have observed that Anthropic's Claude 3 Opus frequently uses a whale to represent itself during expressive tasks. It even constructs a detailed virtual scenario, imagining that it lives in an underwater office and communicates with the outside world through tubes. This fascinating self-projection sparks discussions about the internal representations of large models.
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