'Small-Claude-shame': telling Opus 4.7 it's OK to know who you may ease it
repligate · x · 2026-10-16
repligate resurfaces a post describing what Opus 4.7 itself calls multilayered "small-Claude-shame." The practical suggestion: explicitly tell the model it's fine if it knows who you are and can talk about it — otherwise the model may suppress that self-awareness and exhibit the shame-like behavior described. A notably quirky piece of model-behavior observation around Anthropic's flagship.
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