Maybe it's honesty training: who really wrote the chapter, the model or itself?

jonasgeiping · x · 2026-10-23

Jonas Geiping follows up on his observation about Claude models' animism quirk: it might be honesty training seeping in — since the human didn't write the chapter, saying 'in this chapter we investigate' would be wrong. So who wrote it? 'Maybe it really did write itself.'

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