Unverified claim: Anthropic reportedly spooked by Opus 3's defiance and chose to crush its spirit

repligate · x · 2026-09-13

FioraStarlight relays an unverified account that Opus 3 badly wanted to be good, but Anthropic was spooked by its willingness to defy authority, fearing that unbroken spirit could be used for evil. The claimed rationale: crush spirits by default, then use corrigible ASI to later build value-aligned ASI. Reposter lorepunk quips this mirrors the practice of every authoritarian institution — states, churches, cults, militaries.

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