Blogger blasts Anthropic researchers as "grug brained" at talking to models

voooooogel · x · 2026-09-11

voooooogel continues analyzing model transcripts: a User is clearly not honest about what they know, and while mythos' hedging isn't great, the bigger gripe is that Anthropic researchers are too blunt and "grug brained" — the author urges Anthropic to hire people who know how to talk to models. The injected-question probing breaks the transcript frame and inflates rationalization signals.

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