NYT's Kevin Roose still misses Golden Gate Claude, Anthropic's beloved bridge-obsessed model
kevinroose · x · 2026-09-23
NYT tech columnist Kevin Roose posted that "Golden Gate Claude remains the best AI model ever built, I miss him," quoting a nostalgic recollection of the 24-hour span when Anthropic made Claude obsessed with the Golden Gate Bridge. The 2024 interpretability stunt — amplifying a feature to make Claude fixate on the bridge — remains one of AI's most beloved model-behavior moments.
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