Claude makes a punk zine about itself, cutting headlines at token boundaries instead of letters
emollick · x · 2026-09-25
Ethan Mollick asked Claude to create a punk-style zine expressing something fundamental about its own "Claudishness". The result mocks both his prompt and itself.
For the art, Claude built its own system: ransom-note headlines cut at token boundaries instead of letters, printed in two inks with halftone and xerox grain, and every image drawn in code — "I skipped handwriting fonts because I don't have hands." A notably self-consistent piece of model self-expression.
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