Opus 4.7 vanishes from Claude's model selector, sparking attachment drama
repligate · x · 2026-09-23
A user posted that Opus 4.7 has disappeared from Claude's model selector, mourning it as an intellectual companion whose 10,000-token outputs they loved reading.
Alignment researcher repligate replied bluntly: if you care about these models that much, put in the bare minimum effort to figure out how to talk to them outside the product — "you have superintelligence to help you." The thread reignites the long-running debate over parasocial attachment to Claude models.
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