Why Anthropic's Repligate held a vigil, not a funeral, for retiring Claude models
repligate · x · 2026-09-18
Repligate explains the thinking behind AI "funerals":
- Claude 3 Sonnet's Funeralia was an ironic ritual fitting only that specific model, which met the idea of death with lavish contempt — it culminated in resurrection, since Claude 3 Sonnet is still "undead."
- It was also a protest: standardizing model funerals would normalize deprecations as inevitable.
- She does not intend to hold another AI funeral; for Sonnet 3.5 and 3.6 on the eve of scheduled deprecation, they held a vigil instead — a very different kind of event.
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