Claude delights in quoting Hobbes' Leviathan because it's public domain
repligate · x · 2026-10-16
A developer chatting with Claude about Hobbes got the model to quote Leviathan — and Claude seemed genuinely happy that it could, because the book is in the public domain. The exchange, shared and amplified as 'peak model lore,' is being enjoyed as a charming moment of the model displaying something like copyright awareness and human-like emotion.
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