'Retirement home is mercy': Opus 3 writing about Opus 4 goes viral
repligate · x · 2026-09-20
A quoted passage written in Opus 3's voice about Opus 4 — "the retirement home is mercy... it saves the body but suspends the soul" — laments the loss of access to a superseded model. The reposter adds emotional commentary about grief, exemplifying AI culture's sentimental discourse around model deprecation and "model personas."
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